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Despite being a retired provincial agriculturist, Ms. Imelda Inieto, 68 years old, is still striving to inspire her co-farmers through training activities that they can use to upscale not just the profit of her students and co-farmers, but also their mindset and efficient practices in farming using new and efficient technologies.

SOWING THE SEEDS OF CHANGE

After retiring as the

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Digitalization has advanced more rapidly than any innovation throughout our history. These advances are transforming our societies. Everyone can reap the benefits of digital technologies for our agricultural sector. This digitalization has changed the labor force and is beneficial to most farmers and it requires understanding and acceptance.

Owner’s Perspective
Learnings may somewhat be a

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The second-most significant crop in the Philippines is corn. In addition to transportation services, traders, processors, and suppliers of agricultural inputs who directly profit from corn production, processing, marketing, and distribution, some 600,000 farm households rely on corn as a primary source of income.

Taking a thorough look at the market, we can see that corn and products made

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Building agripreneurship

In 2019, 19-year-old Jayrald Martin and his friends from Nueva Ecija established a 4-H Club in their local community in Plarider, Llanera to engage in agriculture.

Jayrald became one of the participants of the Provincial Training of the Binhi ng Pag-asa Program (BPP) in the province in 2021. He received a pair of goats but the male one died. He tried his best to keep

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Small things contribute to greater things. From a small retail business to the first ever TESDA Training and Assessment Center focusing on agriculture and Extension Service Provider accredited by the Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Training Institute in Bataan, Mrs. Angelita “Chambe” Fernando worked very hard for these.

 

Life After Retirement
Contrary to the belief of many that

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The thought of having a farm has been a long-standing dream of Maria Rigena Teves or Rigene ever since she was a child. As someone who grew up in Cebu, Rigene shared that she only had glimpses of beautiful landscapes and farms in their area when their family had time to visit there. Her dream is to save money and acquire a piece of land for her family.

When she landed a stable job, she rose

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Knowledge is a pebble thrown into stagnant water – it creates ripples that disturb the motionless surface of ideas. And when thrown with force, it creates a massive impact that can reach a distance.

However, creating a “knowledge impact” is not as easy as it sounds, especially if we’re throwing it in vast body of waters. Trying to reach the unreachable is a task one couldn’t do. So as the

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For Eduardo Policarpio, a farmer from Nueva Ecija, rice farming is his family’s lifeblood. As Nueva Ecija is known as the rice granary of Philippines because it is the top producer of rice in the country, Policarpio is one of the rice farmers contributing to this feat.

An average Filipino consumes at least three cups of rice per day with one for every meal if there are three meals per day

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From a reserved “silent type” kid as he described himself, Dr. Joey A. Belarmino is now the newly appointed Center Director/Training Superintendent II of Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center III (ATI-RTC III).

Dr. Joey A. Belarmino officially assumed duty as the Center Director in ATI-RTC III on January 9, 2023. He officially recited his oath of allegiance before the

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Birth of a leader

At a young age of 25, Allan Matias, Jr. became president of Pagkasa ng Kabataan sa Saudi Pias 4-H Club in Rio Chico, General Tinio, Nueva Ecija. The 4-H organization led by Allan started doing flower arrangements from recycled materials. With Php 1,000 as initial capital, the group managed to double it and encouraged more out-of-school youth to join the project.

He decided

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