The provincial government of Davao del Sur and the Department of Trade and Industry-Davao del Sur staged the first Davao del Sur Investment Conference (ICON) on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at the Crisbel Crown Convention Center in Digos City.
The ICON was among the highlights of the celebration of the 55th founding anniversary of the province, which is expected to gather over a hundred investors, land owners, business people and government partners.
The event aims to strengthen and position Davao del Sur as an investment hub in Davao Region, as it will showcase the great potentials for agriculture, agro-industry, manufacturing, and processing.
DTI Davao Del Sur Provincial Director Engr. Maria Victoria R. Placer said that with the presence of the investors and other stakeholders, the ICON intends to present viable investment projects and opportunities in the areas of agriculture (livestock and poultry)/agri-processing, renewable energy, tourism, and high value crops.
“We are actually priming up our economy with the existing investors that we already have in the province of Davao del Sur,” she stated during an episode of One Davao on COVID-19, a virtual presser of the Philippine Information Agency Region XI.
The ICON which will be spearheaded by the Provincial Economic Development and Investment Promotion Office (PEDIPO) in partnership with DTI-Davao del Sur will highlight keynote messages from invited speakers, presentations of investment projects, business matching, and among others.
It will also feature a networking activity that will provide opportunities for the city/municipal mayors and their Local Economic Development and Investment Promotion Officers (LEDIPOs) to talk with company representatives on investment potentials.
Placer has invited local and even international investors to join the ICON and visit the province.
“Hopefully, with this in place, we will be able to win again more investors in the future,” she stated.
She expressed hopes that they would be pursuing investment promotion schemes with a more active stance under the incoming set of local officials of the province.
Placer shared that DTI’s endeavors have received a lot of support from the administration of the late Governor Douglas Cagas and from the incumbent Governor Marc Cagas. (PIA XI/Razhina Bruce)
