"Be an agri-industrialized City with its industries, products, and services of world-class standard, a major player in the BIMP-EAGA polygon having attained self-sustained economic growth and influence."

        "Productive and self-reliant people, socially oriented communities and cooperatives, responsive local government providing adequate services, infrastructure and support facilities all directed towards attaining a creative, conductive, and economically likewise ecologically sound environment, to enhance the role of being the leading service, institutional, commercial, trading and manufacturing certer for agri-industrial resources with the ultimate goals of improving the quality of life for the people of Tagum, of supporting the development in its influence areas, Davao del Norte Province, and Region XI by the year 2000 and beyond."