“Philippine Star” on May 12, 2008 said: “There’s a fast-rising
agriculture entrepreneur with the bold vision to seize the many golden
opportunities of the ongoing global food crisis. Only 32 years old and a
youth whose father died early, self-made businessman and vegetarian
Antonio ‘Tony’ Tiu recently gave Philippine STAR an exclusive interview
on his plans to publicly list his newly renamed firm AgriNurture, Inc.
(Ani for short, which he points out is “harvest” in Tagalog) in two
months. He also plans to raise P1.3 billion pesos to expand his fruit
exports, farms, fruit processing plants and other integrated agriculture
businesses. Tiu’s firm is also the biggest fruit and vegetable supplier
to SM groceries and malls nationwide.
“Tony Tiu is proficient in English, Tagalog, Mandarin and Hokkien,
his immigrant great-grandfather Joaquin Tiusingko having first settled
in San Marcelino, Zambales. Today, Tony Tiu has thousands of hectares of
farms planted with jatropha, rice, corn, potatoes, vegetables, chili,
mangoes, papaya, root crops, etc., all over Zambales, Sorsogon,
Bukidnon, Rizal, Pangasinan, Pampanga and Tarlac. He is planning to buy
an Indonesian agriculture firm and a Hong Kong food firm. He will soon
launch agriculture scholarships with Silliman University in Dumaguete
City.”
When? 7.00 pm. Tuesday, 20 May 2008 Dinner
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