NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Oct. 21 (PIA) –- From being agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), 27 farmers from Barangay San Miguel in Murcia town have completed the 29-day training to become Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA)– National Certificate II certified organic farmers,
These 27 scholars are now NC II holders of Organic Agriculture Production certificate after completing the 29 days training and passing the competency assessment by TESDA.
About 25 of the 27 were scholars under the TESDA - Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) while two were scholars of Ecological and Agricultural Development Foundation, Inc.
TWSP is a TESDA Scholarship Program which provides skills training with free assessment, training support fund of P160 per day, internet allowance, and health / personal protective equipment allowance.
Supervising TESD Specialist of TESDA Negros Occidental Provincial Office Beverly Insular with Department of Agrarian Reform Negros Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer I Milagros C. Flores, OIC- Chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer of Program Beneficiaries Development Division (PBDD) Rizalina V. Yuguing and Ecological and Agricultural Development Foundation, Inc. Executive Director Danny C. Moraca graced the graduation rites held at the Entorilan ARBA, Inc. Centerhouse.
Insular highlighted that the initiative was in line with TESDA’s commitment to provide agriculture related skills training to CLOA beneficiaries which will equip ARBs with skills to enable them to increase farm productivity and economic sustainability.
Meanwhile, Flores said that with so much going on, threats to food safety and security has risen.
"May this training equip our farmers to counter these threats and capacitate them to produce quality products to provide for their community and improve their economic status," she said.
The Organic Agriculture Production NC II Training capacitates farmers on raising organic chicken, producing organic vegetables, producing organic fertilizer, raising organic chicken, hogs, and small cattle/sheep. *(LTP/EAD-PIA6 Negros Occidental)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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