The La Trinidad Strawberry Farm is a

farm A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

in the town of La Trinidad,

Benguet Benguet (), officially the Province of Benguet ('';'' ; pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Benguet; ilo, Probinsia ti Benguet; ), is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the southern tip of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the islan ...

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primarily used for the cultivation of

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. The farm is also open to tourism.

Background

The strawberry farm is located in Barangay Betag of La Trinidad,

and is owned and maintained by the

Benguet State University The Benguet State University (BSU or BengSU) is a state university in the province of Benguet, Philippines. Its main campus is in La Trinidad. History It started as the La Trinidad Farm School, which was elevated to Trinidad Agricultural Sc ...

(BSU). The BSU leases at least lots of the farm to local farmers for strawberry cultivation. Strawberries are an important part of La Trinidad's economy with the Strawberry Festival held in the town every March.

Production

The average annual harvest of the farm as of 2018 is harvested by 660 farmers.

Tourism

The La Trinidad Strawberry Farm is a destination for tourist visiting the town of La Trinidad. According to the Benguet Tourism Office, the strawberry farm is the most visited tourist destination in the province with 538,346 tourist arrivals for the first quarter of 2017. It is sometimes mistaken to be situated in neighboring

Baguio Baguio ( , ), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", ...

with local vendors selling souvenir and products bearing the name "Baguio" within the vicinity of the farm. This led the municipal government of La Trinidad to come up with a Tourism Code in 2018 encouraging the explicit promotion of the "La Trinidad" name.

References

{{reflist Farms in the Philippines Tourist attractions in La Trinidad, Benguet