The Agricultural Training Institute-Central Luzon (ATI-CL) through its Information Services Section (ISS) bagged three (3) major awards in 2022 during the IS Achievers' Awards of the Knowledge Management Updates in Butuan City on December 8, 2022.
The center has been recognized for its most notable accomplishments in the following major fields:
(1) Knowledge Products and Services;
(2) Digital Farmers Program (DFP); and
(3) Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Extension Services Program.
This year, ATI-CL has developed and produced 57 various kinds of Knowledge Products such as corporate materials, technology kits, pamphlets, leaflets, booklets, brochures, and videos. In addition, we have registered 16 publications to ISSN/ISBN through the National Library of the Philippines from 2019-2022.
The center has also conducted two (2) batches of DFP to our FITS staff in Aurora and Nueva Ecija. In fact, the FITS staff have rolled out the said program to the farmers in their respective areas. Moreover, an additional seven (7) batches of DFP have been implemented in the Learning Sites for Agriculture across all provinces in Central Luzon. Capping off the program this year was the implementation of the first ever Digital Agriculture Congress on December 5-6, 2022 among 50 LSA cooperators and 100 FITS staff. We have invited several experts to share their latest digital applications and technologies in the field of agriculture.
Further, a total of 30 Barangay FITS kiosks has been established in the region under RCEF-RESP. Also, five (5) FITS centers have been launched under the said program. For the implementation of SOA-RCEF, a total of 764 graduates finished the program in Zambales. Lastly, a magazine solely dedicated to RCEF was also published every semester covering the activities of the program.
