Many Batangueños were born from a family of farmers. This is perhaps where the Batangueños’ trait of being hard-working has rooted from.

 

        Sixty (60) percent of the province’s land area is agricultural. With a land this huge to cultivate, our farmers surely need the government’s support in order to continue making progress for the province’s economy and for them to keep hold of a regular source of living.

 

        Take for example, the town of Lobo. It has 19,268 hectares of land where rice, corn, coconut, fruit-bearing trees, and root crops grow. Despite some limitations for its agricultural potential to completely prosper, commodities from Lobo are blessings to consider every day.

 

        That is why the town folks gather each year, on the last week of September, to celebrate the Anihan Festival. This is the local government’s way of giving importance to their main source of income – the agricultural products they grow and the fruit that put Lobo in the “capital of the Philippines” list, atis (sugar apple).