Very recently, interest in the native hito has been becoming keen because of the availability of fingerlings. In Bulacan, Edmund and Yayan Mercado are now producing native hito fingerlings in their farm in Angat. By Zac B. Sarian I N these hard economic times, the name of the game is entrepreneurship. Instead of seeking employment, those who are in a position to do so could create their own employment. Not everybody, of course, can become entrepreneurs but those who are determined to do so can become one.
Agriculture is a wide field for the entrepreneur.
The beauty about farming is that there is a wide choice as to the type of project to undertake. It can be a modest one requiring little capital or something that requires millions of pesos in financing. In becoming an entrepreneur, one should be sharp at spotting the opportunities that are just right for one s circumstances. Just like a friend of ours, for instance, who decided to go into tilapia farming. He thought that was the right project for him because he already had a one-hectare property that was suitable for fish farming.