Pangasinan women find livelihood opportunities from milkfish processing

Milkfish processing business has become a profitable source of income for a group of women who used to spend their afternoons playing tong-its, enabling them to earn their first million pesos through sheer hardwork. But success didn’t come easy for the Binmaley (Pangasinan) Rural Improvement Club Seafood Products as it as it had its share of ups and downs. Milagros Buenafe, president of Binmaley, told The STAR she originally intended their livelihood project to encourage her fellow mothers to be productive, instead of spending their time playing card games like tong-its.