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A certified farmer, a teacher and a trainer – that is Victorino Bayed.

From the paddies to the lecture halls, Bayed’s story traces its root back into farming. It was farming that sustained his family needs and it was the same endeavor that earned him a degree in Forestry. He was a tender of the land during his childhood years and still is up to the present time.

Banking on hard work, Bayed

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God is in this story; God is in the details…., this is perhaps the best way to describe the journey of the Lumas-i family of the Bacayan’s Farm at Tannubong, Ipil, Tabuk, Kalinga.

 

The 2.6-hectare Bacayan farm presently is a certified learning site for agriculture (LSA) funded by the Rice Competitiveness Fund (RCEF). As a rice-based integrated farm, lowland vegetables and itik-egg

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“Diyak pati diyak kita” (to see is to believe).

A line often uttered by local farmers in the face of new farming technologies. However, despite the reluctance, Mr. Jaime Tallongon opted to capitalize on various opportunities to improve his farming practices. Through his adoption of the rice drum seeder and integration of the PalayCheck System, his usual harvest of 100 cavans per hectare during

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MANGO is one of the tropical fruits that the Philippines is known for, and one province comes in mind if we speak of sweet mangoes – the province of Guimaras. In the town of A. Lista, Ifugao, there is one man, that is known for his quality guimaras variety mango fruits. He is Mr. Allen Bongat, a Learning Site for Agriculture (LSA) under the HVCD program. Let us get to know him more.

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“When simple is more than enough, you will feel happy more than enough!”

This quotation from Mehmet Murat Ildan (a multi-awarded Turkish novelist, thinker and playwright) crossed my mind, as I came to know Janrey Casionan, one of ATI-CAR’s scholar under the Academic and Technology Integration Education Program or ATI-EP. The scholarship program was designed to empower interested Out-of

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In the farming community of Namnama, Alfonso Lista, Ifugao, there lived a couple named Kenneth Jacob and Susana Jacob who are both agriculture graduates from Ifugao State College of Agriculture and Forestry (ISCAF), currently known as Ifugao State University (IFSU). As a family of farmers, they own two hectares of land, two four-wheel tractors with rotovator, and a rice combine harvester which

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He dreamt of working abroad as a mechanical engineer but life for him is not what he expected it to be- nevertheless, he embraced it wholeheartedly.

Mr. Samuel Bakiran, 53, born from Paracelis, Mtn Province, married to Mineva Anog with three children is now enjoying a life of a farmer business man at Calaccad, Tabuk, Kalinga. Aside from their ZKA Agricultural Trading business, the couple is set

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Before doing an interview with her, Marilou Dulnuan happily heeded our request to have first our video documentation on one of her cassava-based recipes. Her daughter, Charity Joy happily assisted her the entire time. The recipe they shared was their upgraded version of polvoron. After the video shoot and a taste of the final product- we now understood why she called it ‘upgraded polvoron’ –

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Nu panpanunutek ti istorya ti biyag ko, makasangit ak. (It brings me to tears when I think of those memories in my life.)

A resounding statement from a man tested by life’s experiences – a father, a brother, a farmer leader, and an advocate of natural and sustainable farming, Mr. Ashley Lamaton, a Magsasaka Siyentista (MS) and a learning site on agriculture (LSA) owner at Kadaclan, Barlig

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Nestled at the eastern valley walls of La Trinidad in the province of Benguet, Barangay Ambiong is home to a rapidly spreading community venture with the Ambiong La Trinidad Organic Practitioners Association (ALTOPA) as its outbreak origin. Barangay Ambiong finds a unique feature in its geography for being located at the outskirts of La Trinidad but bordering the City of Baguio. Thus, the

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