BUTUAN CITY, April 24 -- From barely breaking even, the 500-strong KM7 Farmers-Producers Cooperative (KMFPC) now earns PHP150,000 per month from its rubber production project of the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Program (DA-PRDP).

The project, established in 2018 under the Integrated Rubber Production and Marketing, was allocated PHP22.2 million, released separately through materials and support equipment.

"The first materials we received were composed of 100,000 seedlings of rubber which we planted in a 50-hectare area in Barangay Tungao, Butuan City," KMFPC chair Samuel Calawigan Jr. said in an interview on Wednesday.

Calawigan said the DA-PRDP helped them establish a nursery for rubber seedlings to support t...