ILOILO CITY, Dec. 4 (PIA) -- The Iloilo Investment Forum 2020 will showcase various potentials for agribusiness investments in the city and province of Iloilo.
The event, set on December 9 to 10, 2020 in Iloilo City, will be a platform for investors to to identify opportunities on the area of agriculture, tourism, and digital economy, among many major areas that are worth pursuing for investment.
In a media release, Terence S. Uygongco, chairperson of the Iloilo Economic Development Foundation, Inc. (ILEDF), said that re-imagining Iloilo’s next economy and transforming it into a resilient sector is now an imperative.
“There is no other time to align the local economy back on its high-growth track than today,” he said.
According to the business group, Iloilo possesses the fundamentals to realize the national government’s “new thinking” in agriculture development which pushes a modified focus from advancing specific crops towards overall wellness of the rural sector in terms of resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability.
The exemplary quality of place that is Iloilo makes it an ideal environment to start, recover, and grow your business.
It has displayed robust economic development from agriculture and fisheries production and with a reliable infrastructure, competent pool of human resource, and a peaceful community.
The investment forum is also designed as a venue to discuss and facilitate economic recovery; hence, this is a three-part series that will kick-off with an introductory forum this December 2020.
It will be followed by preparation of investment tools, one-on-one meetings with potential and existing investors, and dialogues with business sector players for networking.
The series of events will culminate in an international investment forum targeted March 2021.
The Iloilo Investment Forum 2020 is a business conference organized by the Iloilo Provincial Government, the Iloilo City Government and ILEDF, in collaboration with the regional offices of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Trade and Industry(DTI), and Department of Tourism (DOT) in Western Visayas.
The forum is a free event and interested participants may visit the event website to learn more about the event, the program, and the speakers at http://forum.investiniloilo.ph/.
Interested participants need to register in order to gain access to the forum via https://ift.tt/33EMIk8. (JSC/LTP/PIA6 Iloilo)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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