Farm tourism boosts Batangas livelihoods

TANAUAN CITY, Batangas: Thousands of fisherfolk and farmers have benefited from the local government’s farm tourism campaign initiated by the Department of Tourism (DOT), helping to attract foreign investors and add livelihood to these two sectors of marginal workers, Mayor Jhoanna Corona said.

A year after “Farm Tourism Development Act of 2016” was signed into law, the DOT has pursued efforts with the Department of Agriculture, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Agrarian Reform and local government units to establish at least one tourism farm in each of the 81 provinces in the country.