Banana chips launched as healthy food
THE regional offices of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Southern Mindanao and the Department of Education (Deped) formally launched Thursday banana chips as a healthy nutritious snacks in all public elementary and high schools in the Davao City.Paciente Cubillas, senior trade and industry development specialist of the Consumer Welfare and Trade Regulation Division (CWTRD) of the DTI-Southern Mindanao, told Sun.Star Davao that the launching is a regional campaign for school canteens to offer banana chips as a nutritious food snacks to all elementary and high school students.
"The processors will be the one to draw an agreement with the school canteens kung ilan ang isu-supply nila," Cubillas said, adding that the partnership on banana chips project between DTI and DepEd has been concretized after a year of planning.
"May mandate para sa lahat nga mga agencies sa government towards providing good nutrition sa mga bata.
Ang mandate naman sa amin is to produce jobs, so with this partnership, we can generate more jobs with the more demand of the products na isu-supply sa mga canteens," Cubillas said.
He added that they identified six banana chips processors in Davao Region that will supply banana chip products in school canteens.
"Most of the processors are into export, they can be assured of the quality and packaging," Cubillas said.
