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With the rising cost of commercial feeds for livestock, local livestock raisers resort to using alternative feeds as an alternative source for commercial feeds. Aside from being economic, it is also sustainable such that alternative feed ingredients could be produced closer to home and could benefit local producers. In line with this, the Regional Training Center of the Agricultural Training

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Coffee is one of the top 10 priority commodities in the Cordillera region. The coffee varieties especially Arabica produced in Benguet and Mt. province is considered the best quality due to their aroma. The region is very conducive to coffee growing due to its terrain and weather, as it was ranked as a major coffee producer in the Philippines until the eighties; recently it landed only as sixth

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Through its ladderized course on Extension Delivery Enhancement, the Regional Training Center of the Agricultural Training Institute in the Cordillera implemented its fourth phase to the agricultural extension workers for the enhancement and development of their knowledge and skills on what they were expected to teach to their respective clienteles.

A total of 32 agricultural extension workers

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CALANASAN, APAYAO. The Department of Agriculture released 1.5 million pesos to the Provincial Local Government of Apayao for the Province-led Agriculture and Fisheries Extension System (PAFES) on May 18, 2023 during the Provincial Founders Day Celebration of Apayao. Particularly, the fund will support the proposed capacitation of AEWs in the province in preparation to the full devolution of

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LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET. The Department of Agriculture released 1.1 million pesos to the Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) of Benguet for the implementation of the interventions under the Province-led Agriculture and Fisheries Extension System (PAFES). A ceremonial fund turnover marked the transfer of said fund at the Benguet Provincial Capitol on May 15, 2023. DA-Regional Field Office-CAR (DA

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“Great and wonderful, this is my impression about this training. It’s worth it. I would like to thank our resource person, Mr. Edmund Benavidez who had been so very energetic from the start to the end. Thank you, Sir Ed because you are a rare speaker who always highlights the word of God. Second, to our facilitators, Ma’am Beth and Ma’am Tiffanie, who were behind this training and who were really

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In organic fertilizer is a staple input of farmers when it comes to mass farming. With the global crisis in the production and importation of inorganic fertilizers, their cost suddenly increased. Due to this scenario, the Philippines is affected because of dependent on the importation of inorganic fertilizers since it does not have enough resources to produce the fertilizer that can supply the

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“This training can let me promote, sell, and market my product through online platform with less hassle and I as a farmer can be at par with the good pricing in the market” said Mr. Jerome Bisquerra of Bangued, Abra during the closing program of the Digital Farmers Program for Farmers conducted last April 17-18, 2023 with 24 farmer-participants.

For the month of April, the DA-ATI-RTC-CAR in

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BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE. The Provincial Local Government (PLGU) of Mountain Province is set to conduct various agriculture and fisheries extension services after receiving the 1.7 million Province-led Agriculture and Fisheries Extension System (PAFES) fund from the CAR PAFES RPMO on May 11, 2023 during a turnover ceremony at the MPAFEC in Caluttit, Bontoc, Mountain Province. These interventions

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Extension is guided by the principle of working with its clients starting with what they know and have. In this way, there is a better assessment and analysis of issues, needs, problems, opportunities, and available resources which is important in the identification of appropriate interventions. Hence, ATI-RTC-CAR developed the Community Needs Assessment Course under the Training Program on the

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