Francisco Soriano-Dela Fuente
Outstanding Bicolano Businessman

his modest, self-effacing businessman from Masbate is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of family-owned Crown B Agro-Development and Management, Inc.

Based in Aroroy, Masbate De La Fuente's company
established the country's first Bio-Secured Livestock
Production Center, an ISO-accredited firm which employs the strictest measures to sustain disease-free cattle raising farm. It maintains a drug-residue-and antibiotics-free herd to ensure safe and healthy beef and pork throughout the production line as required by the global market.

The 4,000-hectare multi-agricultural farm straddles four barangays in the municipality of Aroroy alone that provides not only jobs but also infrastructural support, power and modern communication facilities, safe water supply and aerodome to the community The company is currently expanding with its 3,000 sow-level market hogs production complemented by livestock and poultry feeds manufacturing. Its tiger prawn production is likewise being expanded, along with its modern breeder and feeder cattle farms. With his flourishing business, livestock farmer Dc La Fuente envisions to uplift the economic, social and nutritional needs of the local provincial populace and thus contribute in large measure to national growth and development.