The company was founded in 2018 by Rico Borromeo, a Biologist who later became a rural doctor and Obstetrician-Gynecologist and his brother Siegfred, an Agriculturist.

OUR BEGINNINGS

They experimented on how to enrich and compost biochar so plants can immediately use its benefits upon application. This was applied intensively in its test farm in Malitbog, Bukidnon where its manufacturing facility, the Vitasoil Agricultural Manufacturing, is now located. The Environmental Research and Development Bureau in Los Banos, Laguna was pivotal in providing the technical expertise in the development of the brand Rootsoil Organic Biochar.

To provide farmers with a steady supply of organic soil amendments.

OUR PURPOSE

To improve soil health and restore soil fertility to increase farm yield and maintain a sustainable practice of agriculture.

Adopt circular economy in Agriculture

OUR AIM

Through resource efficiency of converting waste biomass from local agricultural and industrial production into huge amount of enriched composted biochar for sustainable agricultural production that regenerates nature by permanently fixing carbon into the soil.

To encourage every citizen to participate in carbon removal and reducing emission

OUR ADVOCACY

By bringing the use of Biochar in everyone’s reach as it is the most durable nature-based carbon removal strategies to reach Net Zero by 2050 to reverse global warming.

Meet the amazing Vitasoil Team!

  • Dr. Rico Borromeo

    FOUNDER, PROPRIETOR

    Rico is a dreamer, a believer, and does things for a better world. He is a medical doctor who helps women deliver, one of mankind's greatest joy, babies. He likes to dream and believe that this world can be a better place. He is for everyone.

  • Jennifer Borromeo

    PRODUCTION AND SALES MANAGER

    Jenny is a Registered Nurse in its professional, personal, and philosophical sense. As an RN, she took care of hospital patients like the way she is taking care of her family. Nowadays, she takes care of VitaSoil with the same level of nurse-like discipline ie meticulous, firm and emphatic. She likes being close to nature and putting food on the table for everyone to enjoy.

  • Reynald Recentes

    BUSINESS AND MARKETING CONSULTANT

    Rey is a management guy who loves mountaineering. He believes that life is good and can be made better. With this belief, he constantly challenges boundaries, keeps on learning and makes things happen.

  • Sheena Candia

    PRODUCT RESEARCHER

    Sheena belongs to the rarest of rare humans-she is a plant pathologist. She looks frail like a flower but definitely strong as an iron in her will to find solutions for plant diseases. She likes agriculture and the things that grow above and below Mother Earth. She finds life beautiful.

  • Isabella Borromeo

    GRAPHIC DESIGNER

    Isabella is driven to make pretty things, basically. Through her skills, she is able to be the ultimate creator by capturing the imagination and creating them through her fingertips (and back pains). Isabella also ingrained into her mindset that the world is her oyster, and that you can never stop learning through life.

  • Mark Andro Villastique

    SALES AND DISTRIBUTION

    Mark Andro, his name may be biblical, is a modern agriculturist focusing on agronomy. Having been bred, born and branded in the tobacco farms of his family, agriculture is in his blood. He enjoys farming and basketball.