GOLDMINE Farm to Market is now giving an opportunity for overseas Filipino workers and seafarers to become business owners and profitable entrepreneurs through a potentially successful partnership in a novel rice trading venture.

This bit of good news was learned by various stakeholders on Oct. 4, 2023, from Orlando 'Orly' Manuntag, CEO of Goldmine Farm to Market and spokesman for the Grains Retailers Confederation of the Philippines (Grecon), along with Secretary Lorenzo 'Larry' Gadon, chairman of the the National Anti-Poverty Commission, and Danilo Yang, chairman of Juan Novo Ecijano sa Kaunlarang Pambansa Inc. (JNEKP) and also a former commissioner of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, who introduced the innovative strategy known as collective and cluster farming.