On March 2, 2020, former South Cotabato First District Representative Shirlyn Bañas-Nograles filed House Bill No.

In the early years, the place where the Poblacion is presently situated was known for its abundance of wild life.

Aside from a rich hunting ground, Polomolok had so many creeks with free flowing water coming from the hillsides.

Fields have always been green, harvest bountiful but farm products had low market value and circulation of cash was rather slow.

Then came a breakthrough, when the largest pineapple company, the Dole Philippines Inc., was planted and inaugurated on December 7, 1963.

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A municipality needs P100M as its Annual Average Income (AAI) to qualify for the conversion into a city.

Located at the southern part of South Cotabato, Polomolok is nestled at the base of the prominent Mount Matutum.

It is cone-shaped volcano and looms over the provinces at 2,286 metres (7,500 ft) high, a unique challenge to mountaineers.

Since this tropical rainforest climate is more subject to the Intertropical Convergence Zone than the trade winds and experiences very few cyclones, it is subequatorial.

Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maguindanaon, Maranao, T'boli, Blaan, Teduray and Pangasinan are also spoken to varying degrees by respective ethnolinguistic communities within the municipality.

Dole Philippines Incorporated is the largest industrial firm involved in growing, processing and exporting of fresh and canned pineapple.

The record of the Department of Agriculture shows that as of 2006, the total area planted with asparagus is 1,435.52 hectares.

Plantations of this crop are in Barangay Sulit, Sumbakil, Crossing Palkan, Bentung, Lapu, Pagalungan, Lumakil, Rubber and Magsaysay.

Farmer growers have access to the export market due to contract agreement with Marsman-Drysdale Agri-Ventures and Tropifresh.

Vegetables grow well in Barangay Palkan, Kinilis, Maligo, Sumbakil and Koronadal Proper where the climate is cool and the soil is fertile.

However, the farmers cannot really produce in large volume due to financial constraints and unstable prevailing market prices of vegetables.

This is partly due to the municipality's climate and terrain which is ideal for livestock and poultry production.

Wild civet coffee production improves the livelihood of the Blaan people who live at the foot of Mount Matutum Protected Landscape.

The tribe scours, for half a century its forest slopes to collect the nocturnal revered Paradoxurus, "Philippine palm civet"'s defecated poops.

The people's conservation promotes their livelihood from the prized wild civet coffee, called "balos" where a cup costs $80 in United States markets.

Sitio 8 village, Barangay Kinilis, Polomolok is famous as a civet coffee-producing settlement.