BANANA PLANTATION: Main Source of Income

"A walk down the rich landscape of Panabo"

Davao del Norte is popular for its export-quality Cavendish bananas. Plantations are a common sight in the province. This is particularly true for Panabo City—one of the province’s three cities—which devotes around 10,000 hectares of its 25,123-hectare land area to banana production.

Already home to the world’s largest banana plantation owned by the Tagum Agricultural Development Company (TADECO), Panabo City is now also known as home to the so-called “finest bangus in Mindanao.”

Davao del Norte may be the Banana Capital of the Philippines but, soon, it shall be identified with bangus as Panabo City gears up towards becoming the Bangus Capital of Mindanao, if not the Philippines. This is the development thrust of Mayor Silvosa, who envisions his city to be the Agri-Industrial Gateway to the World.