{"id":246067,"date":"2016-09-06T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T09:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246067"},"modified":"2016-09-06T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T09:35:32","slug":"filipino-farmer-strikes-gold-with-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/filipino-farmer-strikes-gold-with-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino farmer strikes gold with cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Filipino farmer Grover Rosit first started growing cocoa trees more than a decade ago he had no idea it would allow him to retire from his day job at the age of 50.<\/p>\n
Back then, he was working full-time as a postman earning a moderate wage as a government employee of the Philippines Postal Corporation.<\/p>\n
His wife also earned an average income working as a teacher and he could only dream of ways to supplement the family’s earnings to one day send his six young children to university.<\/p>\n
With a passion for plants and gardening, he used his wife’s small family plot to dabble in farming.<\/p>\n
“During my off days and my holidays I would go to my farm and started planting cocoa little by little,” he says.<\/p>\n