This case study discusses the development of women-led economic enterprise in Metro Naga in Camarines Sur. The riverside community of Cagbunga, Gainza, Camarines Sur depends on crab paste processing as an alternative source of income for its 1,600 residents. The Bicol River has an abundance of small freshwater crabs which the people learned to prepare as pre-processed crab meat in the mid-1980s. The crab meat was sold to Pampanga, more than 500 kilometers away, where it is processed into finished products.
| Asset Type: | Publications |
| Collection: | Philippine Commission on Women |
| Subject: | GREAT Women Project, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Crab-paste Processing |
| Author: | GREAT Women Project Management Office |
| Publisher: | Philippine Commission on Women |
| Publication Date: | August 2011 |
