CEBU CITY – Rona Dengue, 40, is now considered Bohol’s leading farmer-scientist queen of cultured fungi/mushrooms earning an income of about P50,000 a week from her mushroom beds in her organic vegetable garden situated in a 2.5-hectare agricultural property in Sambog, Corella town in Bohol.
Rona was born in Tagum City Davao who is an Accounting graduate remembers her childhood revolving around farm tasks in the family lot in Mindanao. She recalled that her parents would always prefer her to plant anything because they believed she has “green thumb.”
Her infatuation with mushrooms started in an unexpected turns and twists. A zumba enthusiast and into healthy eating and lifestyle, Rona and her husband Jares tend an organic vegetable garden that they called “Green Thumb Farm” which ha problems with its name at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) but has now been cleared.
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