Agro-trade Fair Cum Exhibit 2015 Opens

(Cebu City PIO) – Various agricultural products are featured at the Plaza Sugbo in front of Cebu City Hall as the annual Agro-Trade Fair Cum Exhibit opened on Monday February 9.

Fresh fruits, vegetables, spices, roots crops, flowers, seedlings, and different native products and delicacies from the eighty villages comprising this city are displayed and available for sale.

The activity which will run for five days from February 9-13 kicked off the 78th Charter Anniversary celebration of this Queen City of the South.

Looking back, it was on February 24, 1937, when the City of Cebu was born by virtue of Commonwealth Act No.58 through the initiative of Don Vicente Rama, the father of Cebu City Charter.

The then municipality of Cebu who was under the Cebu Provincial Government became an independent Chartered City known as “Cebu City”.

This year, series of activities are lined-up for the grand celebration.

Cebu City Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella led the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Agro-Trade Fair Cum Exhibit in behalf of Mayor Michael L Rama who was in Manila during the activity.

Furthermore, various competitions are also embedded in the exhibit which is made possible by Cebu City Farmers Federation, Barangay Officials, Cebu City Agricultural Fishery Council, Cebu City Agriculture Department and other stakeholders. (Cebu City Public Information Office)