Lowland rice fields forming a major grain belt. In Bago, a rice-plain city just south of Bacolod, where the lowland grain belt meets the sugar estates. Farming outside the sugar estates is smallholder and mixed — vegetables, root crops, fruit and cacao often on the same land. Upland farms supply the lowland city markets, which is why highland towns matter far beyond their size. Roadside stalls near the farms sell at the lowest prices you’ll find.