Twenty-six INSPIRE beneficiaries successfully finished their Digital Farmers Program (DFP) under the livestock fund held on August 20-21, 2024 at the Aspulan Hall, ATI-RTC-CAR, BSU Compd., La Trinidad, Benguet.
The training aimed to train farmers and equip them on the use of basic digital tools specifically the use of their smartphones in their agricultural activities and use their smartphones to promote and sell their products via online marketing.
Mr. Charlie Sagudan, Center Director graced the opening program and encouraged the participants to participate in the workshop actively. He lauds the active involvement of the female participants as majority of them came to attend over their male counterpart. “Digitization and digitalization is the in-thing of today’s technology and we hope after this activity you will apply this to market your meat products,” he continued.
Topics shared during the training include Smartphone 101, accessing the internet with internet safety basics; QR Code technology, basic mobile photography, basic web-based knowledge resources on swine and livestock, social media and social media marketing; e-commerce and digital transactions.
Participants have generated QR codes for their FB accounts, and submitted their best photos including the social media management plan they have generated.
Ms. Margarita Agyapas, thanked the management for conducting the training. “At my age, I honestly do not easily grasp using technology. Still, these facilitators and speakers did their best to simplify these things so that we could maximize the use of these technologies in our daily lives,” she said with a smile. Ms. Rosita Muñoz seconded that “Learning is for all ages, we should have done this training during our youthful days, I realized and asked myself why only now that I am advancing in age that I have the interest in actively participating in organizations and training like these.”
This is the first DFP conducted training for the livestock program since the majority of the DFP training activities were focused on the rice commodity program.
