METRO Pacific Investments Foundation (MPIF) said it entered into a partnership with Agrea Agricultural System International, Inc. to purchase and distribute produce from farmers cut off from their markets by the lockdown.
METRO Pacific Investments Foundation (MPIF) said it entered into a partnership with Agrea Agricultural System International, Inc. to purchase and distribute produce from farmers cut off from their markets by the lockdown.
The Move Food Initiatives objective is to help agribusinesses that are struggling to cope with the current situation, Agrea President and Founder Cherrie D. Atilano said.
MPIF said the initiative shortens the supply chain for food and hopes to broaden the supply of fresh produce available to vary the diets of quarantined people who have become reliant on canned and preserved food during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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