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Future-Proof Silay Food Valley

A model for the future of local food economies: a long-term program strengthening food security, farmer income, agricultural resilience, processing, local manufacturing, entrepreneurship, distribution, culinary tourism and employment.

The Silay journey

From field to enterprise

  1. Agriculture
  2. Processing
  3. Packaging
  4. Distribution
  5. Tourism
  6. Entrepreneurship

Silay Food Hub

Transform the surplus, don't waste it

Unsold vegetables become kimchi. Tomatoes become sauce. Other suitable surplus becomes preserved and value-added products with a longer commercial life.

Pilot program

Fermented vegetables and preserved products being prepared in a processing kitchen

01

Lower food waste

Surplus harvest is transformed instead of discarded.

02

New farmer markets

Additional outlets for produce that would not sell fresh.

03

Longer shelf life

Preservation and fermentation extend product viability.

04

Local enterprises

Processing creates small businesses and local ownership.

05

Processing skills

Training builds transferable food-production capability.

06

New consumer products

Value-added goods with their own market identity.

South Korea knowledge transfer

Global Knowledge. Local Capability.

Korean trainers have worked with local participants in Silay to teach techniques for transforming suitable vegetables into kimchi — building fermentation skills, culinary diversity and interest in fermented foods among consumers.

  1. Knowledge transfer
  2. Local skills
  3. Food rescue
  4. Product development
  5. Enterprise
Local farmers and community stakeholders participating in Silay's agricultural and food-development initiatives. Photography from the programme will be published here.

From Silay to Korea

From Knowledge Transfer to Market Access

Knowledge first travelled from Korea to Silay. Over the long term, value-added products developed in Silay may travel in the other direction.

Today

  1. Korea
  2. Knowledge
  3. Silay

Long-term potential

  1. Silay
  2. Value-added products
  3. Korea

Export-readiness pathway — no current export contracts

  1. 01Product standardization
  2. 02Food-safety compliance
  3. 03Shelf-life validation
  4. 04Packaging
  5. 05Philippine market validation
  6. 06Korean buyer discovery
  7. 07Regulatory assessment
  8. 08Sampling
  9. 09Commercial validation
  10. 10Potential export

Learn Globally. Build Locally. Compete Internationally.