Members of the Mabini Tablea Food Producers (MABLEA), a women’s association in Mabini, Batangas, were trained on bread and pastry production alongside with the celebration of the International Women’s Day,
The training upskilled the women members of the association and provided them with additional product line aside from their tablea-based products developed by the Institute of Food Science and Technology – University of the Philippines Los Baños (IFST-UPLB) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-Batangas in 2018.
The association has been known in the locality as the sole producer of tablea-based products such as tablea chocolate spread, tablea-peanut bar or tabnut, tablea flan (tablea-flavored leche flan), tablea-peanut butter spread, and tablea chocolate candihave also been braving to spearhead the revitalization of the tablea industry in the Mues, among others.
Since then, theynicipality of Mabini, Batangas through their community enterprise supported by the Soroptimist International of Mabini (SI-Mabini), a volunteer service organization for women,the Local Government Unit of Mabini (LGU-Mabini), and DOST-Batangas.
