The Mud Crab (Kinis) Festival, Rosario, October 5

The Kinis Festival is an event held to showcase Rosario as ‘the Kinis (mud crab) Capital of Northern Samar’. Nortehanons are encouraged to join this exciting and entertaining celebration.

The Festival will be a full-day event commencing 8am Monday, October 5, 2009. Previous years have been a marketplace for traders only, this year we are expanding the program to include cultural performances, Kinis Competitions, a marketplace of local dishes and hand crafts and mangrove replanting.

The event is jointly hosted by the Municipality of Rosario and local NGO, Sentro ha Pagpauswag ha Panginabuhi (SPPI). SPPI supports the local economy through livelihood and enterprise development in sustainable agriculture and coastal resource management. The event is also supported by the local mud crab farmers of the Mangrove Crab Producer Association of Rosario (MCPAR) who are generously donating their product for various Kinis Festival events. Event details and programme will be posted on this blog closer to the event.


If you wish to sponsor and become involved, please email Rowe Acibar our Enterprise Program Specialist, at rowe_acibar22@yahoo.com

Kinis Trading Centre, Rosario

The Kinis Trading Centre is a non-profit trading enterprise for live mudcrabs in Rosario, Northern Samar owned and operated by Sentro Ha Pagpauswag ha Panginabuhi, Incorproated.

KTC works to develop the full agri-business potential of local agricultural development through the propagation of mudcrabs. It envisions further developing the mudcrab industry in the municipality and ultimately promotes the Municipality of Rosario to become the “kinis ” capital of Northern Samar by the year 2012.

We plan to offer a dynamic, unique and constantly evolving service to these farmers. Although, the enterprise is set to incorporate business practices and processes, our focus is on comprehensive social development. The enterprise will be directly supervised by the social enterprise specialists of SPPI whilst management will be facilitated through the guided capacities of the mudcrab farmers themselves.