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TESDA gives free training to Palawan farmers on organic farming


The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has trained a number of farmers in Palawan on organic farming and animal raising at a farm tourism destination in Puerto Princesa.

For over a month, the farmer-scholars participated in TESDA's national certificate level II (NC-II) accredited programs that included agriculture-related short courses last December at Barangay Bacungan, according to Yamang Bukid Farm.

The program included courses on organic fertilizer making, hog raising, field budding and grafting, propagation activities leading to horticulture, animal production for poultry-chicken.

Bro. George Maria, Yamang Bukid Farm Palawan vice president for community relations, said the scholarships were handed to grassroots-based beneficiaries under the auspices of the office of Palawan Rep. Gil Acosta Jr. 

Scholar-graduates were also awarded TESDA certification on production of various concoctions leading to agriculture crops production, plants crops leading to agricultural crops production, and land preparation for agricultural crops production.

The government, through the TESDA, has been pushing for farming education in rural communities in a bid to revitalize the agricultural sector in the country.

The more than 20-hectare farm destination, popular for its well-manicured sunflower gardens, was earlier accredited as a learning site for sustainable and organic farming by the Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) , and as a farm school by the TESDA. — MDM, GMA News

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