The RD City is within the boundaries of General Santos City & Polomolok, both are situated down south surrounded by the hills of Sarangani Province where the shape of the shore line area is a horse shoe like that protects the area and seated at 300 meters above sea level facing the Pacific Ocean and Celebes Sea. The name General Santos City was named after General Paulino Santos, a former commanding General of Philippine Army during the settlement period of Commonwealth dated February 27, 1939 and was inaugurated September 5, 1968, the location was formerly named as “DADIANGAS”, while Polomolok was derived from the B’laan term “FLOMLOK” whish means hunting grounds. In the early years, the place where the Poblacion is presently situated was known for its abundance of wild life and was officially opened for settlement by November 2, 1940.

General Santos City & Polomolok are generally flat dotted with some surrounding hills and mountain creeks with free flowing water coming from the surrounding hills of Sarangani Province. Those cool and clear flowing waters encouraged foreigners to settle in both places. One of them was Japanese trader Zenjiro Takahashi and his B’laan wife. He began clearing the are of Polomolok and plnated agricultural crops. After the settlement of the Government this was followed by a breakthrough, when the largest pineapple company in the World came, “Dole Foods Company, Inc.”. They inaugurated on December 7, 1963 under the name of Dole Philippines, Inc. An American agricultural multinational corporation, with headquarter address in Westlake Village California USA and later the operation was transferred to a Japanese Trading Giant Itochu Corp., last April 8 2013 and until this day Dole Philippines, have been operating abundantly and serenely for almost half a Century.