About Cempedak

Cempedak
Brua Flores Eco-Farm
At Brua Flores Eco-FARM, we are passionate about bringing you fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables. We empower home gardeners to plant premium seeds from our produce, and prime seedlings, carefully selected to survive for clients to achieve good harvest in the future.
Our journey began in the year 2020, driven by the vision of living sustainably using natural means, aided with advancement in agriculture. We commit to provide quality service to our clients,both in technical and educational aspects.

Founded by
Jong M. Flores
In the heart of Don Carlos, Bukidnon, there lives a visionary farmer named Mr. Jong M. Flores. He is fondly accorded to as the Cempedak Advocate since he is one of the pioneering propagators of the fruit. Proudly owning the Brua-Flores Eco Farm in Barangay Bocboc, Don Carlos, Bukidnon, he has rightfully utilised this 1 hectare farm to propagate many rare fruit trees and one of these is Cempedak.
Hailing from a family of corn and sugarcane farmers, Mr. Flores, a licensed professional teacher, discovered his true passion for agriculture at a young age. He initially spent few years of teaching in public school, he eventually followed his enthusiasm for farming. His vision brought him to study further with a Master’s degree in Agricultural Extension.
Now living his ultimate dream of teaching while farming, he has always believed that all these things happen with the Almighty's guidance.

In 2019, Mr. Flores commenced his cempedak journey by planting this rare fruit after obtaining the planting material from a friend in Thailand. The onset of the pandemic in 2020 prompted him to establish a small nursery farm, creating the opportunity to expand and realize his dream of introducing and popularizing cempedak in the Philippines. He envisions households across the country savoring this rare fruit within the next 4 to 5 years, believing it can serve as an alternative source of income.
Mr. Flores has over 20 trees bearing fruits, and he continues expanding it into a two-hectare Plantation. Flores, who has amassed a collection of over 150 species of various fruits from different countries on his farm, expressed a commitment to preserving native Filipino fruit trees while incorporating exotic ones. Among the rare fruits he has collected, cempedak stands out. As he proudly asserts, “You can never go wrong with cempedak. This fruit is a good investment, adaptive to Philippine soil and environmental conditions, and one of the easiest to propagate.”
Manny Piñol Testimony
I had my first taste of Cempedak in Borneo about 3 years ago. I found the taste strange and did not like it at first. Recently, however, my friend, Jong "Fruit Explorer" Flores came to my farm with ripe Cempedak and it tasted very sweet with an aroma of a combination of Durian, Langka and Marang.
Now, I am Cempedak convert not only of its unique taste but also because of its great potential as a re-greening species. May prutas ka na, nakakapag-reforest ka pa.




