COMMERCE AND TRADE

The commercial activities in the municipality revolve around retail stores and personal services. Some 153 retail stores are scattered around in Poblacion and its barangays. These stores serve the whole community and its adjacent towns for all the basic daily necessities.

Some of these businesses that cater our immediate needs include eateries, drugs stores, bakeshops, sari-sari stores, etc. Other service establishments include barbershops, tailoring and dress shops, lodging houses, gas stations, etc.

There is also a group of businessmen in our town that we call the “bol-anon”. This term is derived from the word “Boholanon” – meaning people that came from the neighbor province of Bohol. Almost all from this group has a common type of business. They are selling dry goods and generic RTWs. Some of them have already set-up a mini-shopping center in Poblacion.

The local government also took an initiative to put up a “taboan”. This is a place where farmers and other micro-financed businessmen from different places have a chance to sell or trade their goods to the town folks. This is called the “tabo”. Perhaps the busiest day of the week for the town folks as people gather here for the trading. “Tabo” is scheduled every Friday of the week and took place near the Public Bus Terminal.

Lately, with the introduction of the two relay towers of the country’s two of the leading telecommunications company, cell shops are now began to emerge. It also paves way to the introduction of the internet technology to the town. Hence, a number of internet cafes are now seen at some places in the Poblacion.

A credit union and a rural bank are also found in the municipality which grants commercial, agricultural and small scale industrial loans.

The public market which is located both in the vicinity between Lotao Zone and Hilltop Zone has a combined area of 2,160 square meters.