The income of the Christmas Weekend sa Kapitolyo night market that is now on its second week, increased by 27.6 percent, records from the Negros Occidental provincial government showed yesterday.

The night market earned P108,021 last weekend, while its profit during the first week was only P84,629.

Of the P108,021, earned from food concessionaires was P57,135, and P33,576 from agricultural products concessionaires, with the rest from plants and other garden ornaments being sold in the area.

The weekend market is open from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. and will run until December 28.

It is aimed to promote food tourism, assist micro enterprises, present new products in the market, and create a healthy producer-consumer relationship.

It also intends to make the idle areas around the provincial capitol building productive.

There are 14 concessionaires selling food and beverage products, seven selling agricultural produce, and five garden plants and ornaments in the market.*APN

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