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Baybay City, Leyte - 4H and Rural Based Organization coordinators serve as effective leaders by ensuring accomplishment of its objectives. The coordinators organize and support all projects and activities of the 4H and RBO, recommend best schemes and strategies to implement the livelihood projects, and support in program assessments.

Continuous skills development is thus essential to

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Participants grafting a cacao plant for their workshop during the Training of Trainers on GAP-anchored Cacao Production.

ABUYOG, Leyte - Demands for cocoa products are beyond the production capacity of the Philippines. One contributing factor to low production is the lack of technical capability of farmers. One strategy to address this is to capacitate the agricultural extension workers who in turn will teach the farmers new technologies to increase cacao production.

ATI-RTC 8 conducted the Training of

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One of the ways to ensure a Masaganang Ani, Mataas na Kita is the use of high quality inbred rice seeds. The Dept. of Agriculture thru PhilRice has been promoting the use of high-quality inbred rice seeds because it results in high germination rate, lower seeding rate, more vigorous seedlings, and more efficient crop establishment.

However, for farmers to actually use inbred rice seeds

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ORMOC City, Leyte - Fall Armyworm (FAW) is an insect pest native to tropical and subtropical regions of Americas. It is a highly destructive and invasive pest; capable of feeding on more than 100 plant species with maize and sorghum being the most preferred hosts. If left unmanaged, FAW can cause significant yield loss in maize and other crops.

The Agricultural Training Institute Regional

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Baybay City, Leyte – “Indeed, an added knowledge and the passion for learning will surely maximize our potential as extension workers as we are one of the important people to shape the minds of our farmers,” shares Ms. Raszell F. Lagarteja, an AEW from Arteche, Eastern Samar.

Agricultural extension Workers (AEWs) play an important role in informing, engaging, and moving farmers to action

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Borongan City, E. Samar - IFOAM Organics International defines Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) as locally focused quality assurance systems based on active participation and built on trust, social networks, and knowledge exchange. PGS allows organic farmers to be capacitated and have their farms certified without the expensive costs.

To further assist organic farmers in Eastern

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BAYBAY CITY, Leyte - According to IRRI’s Rice Knowledge Bank, farmers lose an estimated average of 37% of their rice crop to pests and diseases every year. What can significantly reduce losses in production are good crop management, timely and accurate diagnosis in the field. That is why farmers need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills in managing pests and diagnosing diseases

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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is currently evolving from the traditional implementation based approach towards advanced results-based approach which is mainly directed to the assessment of outcomes and impact of development interventions.

In pursuit of excellence and improved governance in Agriculture and Fisheries Extension services, the Agricultural Training Institute as the capacity

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4H officers and coordinators discuss during the workshop

The 4-H Club is a community-based youth organization which aims to help children and young people acquire knowledge, develop life skills, and form attitudes through learning by doing in agriculture and fisheries that will enable them to become self-directing productive members of society.

Over the years, the 4-H club has transformed lives of the Filipino youth across the country producing

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One of the salient points of RA 10601 is to promote the development and adoption of modern, appropriate and cost-effective and environmentally-safe agricultural and fisheries machinery and equipment. This is to enhance farm productivity and efficiency in order to achieve food security and increase farmers’ income.

Rule 47.5 of the aforementioned Act categorically gives importance to farmer

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