Cagayan de Oro City farmers regret planting jathropa
By LIEZL P. BUGTAY and VENUS P. BETITA,
AFRIM
A promise of prosperity turned into a bitter cautionary tale for a community that had pinned its hopes on an alternative energy project in Cagayan de Oro. Rather than benefiting from a much-vaunted government project, the farmers whose lands were planted to jathropa became victims of what they now believe was a swindle.
