Muscovado: A Product from Magallanes, Cavite
Provided with this source of living, the town of Magallanes is very popular in producing muscovado.Magallanes is an agriculture-based municipality, their primary source of income and living is in sugar cane farming.
Muscovado or popularly known as "pardo" is a type of unrefined brown sugar from sugarcane juice with a strong molasses flavor.
Freshly harvested sugarcane is deposited in a big grinder pulled by a carabao slowly moving clockwise until the syrup flows into a big pail. This syrup is transferred to a huge vat and boiled. To clean the syrup, lime is added, scraping the scum frequently until the mixture thickens and then set aside in a large platter, raked until it dries; and finally, using a wooden mortar, break the mixture finely until “Pardo” is completely pounded.
Our Products/Services
* Muscovado Sugar
* Microcredit to members
Our Markets/Customers
* Congressman Crispin “Boying” Remulla
* Needs Grocery
* Taal Vista Hotel
* Delfa’s Pasalubong Center
* Cafe Amadeo
* Pagasa Community MPC
* Kaakbay Ka MPC
* Microtel
* Phinma Training Center
* CACODEC
Our Vision
To be the forefront in the advocacy of women empowerment and promoting the cooperative as a way of life in improving the social and economic well-being of the people ready to face the challenges and be known not only in the local market but globally.
Our Mission
* To encourage thrift and savings mobilization among members for capital formation;
* To create funds in order to grant loans for productive and providential purposes to its members like educational and business loans;
* To provide goods and services and other requirements of the members like loans for livelihood of individual members for hog raising;
* To engage in the cooperative manage coconut handicrafts and manufacturing, repacking and marketing of Musovado raw sugar livelihood projects, etc;
* To process/manufacture other food products like coconut by-products, etc;
* To work with the cooperative movement, non-governmental and goverment organizations/entities in the promotion and development of cooperative and in carrying out government policies; and
* To undertake other activities for the effective and efficient implementation of the Cooperative Code.
