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A two-birds-in-one-stone activity of PAFES Cordillera was Conducted in Paoay Ilocos Norte with 65 participants from the provincial and municipal LGUs of Benguet, Kalinga, Abra, Ifugao, Mountain Province, and Apayao last March 14-16, 2023. The activity was facilitated by the DA-RFO-CAR, BFAR-CAR, and ATI-RTC-CAR Team.

The objective of the Activity was that the 6 provinces should have enhanced

LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET. After more than three years of online and limited physical meetings, members and officers of the Philippine Extension and Advisory Services Network (PhilEASNet) Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) Chapter met on a face-to-face mode for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.  Representatives of extension service providers from government agencies, and private

In today’s business environment, agro-food processing optimizes returns from a farmer’s toil. Rice for instance has its own market share of value-added products which are significant in improving the profitability of rice communities in the Cordilleras.

Recognizing such, 30 members and representatives of the Western Tabuk Rice Cluster and Alfonso Lista Rice Cluster Federation, Inc. were

Farmers Information Technology Services center of Itogon and Kabayan in Benguet Province are among the eight FITS Centers that were enhanced through the Rice Crop Manager. 

For the year, eight FITS Centers are enhanced through the provision of ICT equipment to strengthen their FITS operation and their implementation of the Rice Crop Manager (RCM) Program and Organic Agriculture in their

LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET. It has been more than two years since they met as a group, and while there have been opportunities to discuss among themselves during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic these were only through virtual meetings and limited face-to-face gatherings. This year the Cordillera Administrative Region Local Government Unit Agriculture Office Managers Association (CAR LGU AOMA) held

LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET. Sustaining its planning system, the Agricultural Training Institute – Cordillera Administrative Region (ATI-CAR) went through its annual year-start inhouse planning activity for Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023 on February 8, 2022 at the ATI-CAR in La Trinidad, Benguet with all the 45 Center staff in attendance. For 2022, updates, additional reminders, and guidelines in the

BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE. Mountain Province took the first shots in the continuing Bantay ASF sa Barangay Training on Specimen Collection for Barangay Biosecurity Officers (BBO) for 2022 in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). Jumping off from its initial implementation of the training program in the municipalities of Paracelis and Bauko last year, the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) of

Responding to the persistent clamor among vegetable industry players from Benguet and its neighboring provinces against the alleged resurgence of vegetable smuggling in the country, the Department of Agriculture sent some of its top management officials for a dialogue with industry stakeholders at the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center-Cordillera Administrative Region (ATI

LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET. Mr. Rogel Marsan of the Cosmic Farm, together with his family, received DA Assistant Secretary for the DA-Wide Field Inspectorate Federico E. Laciste, Jr and his team for a visit at their farm in Caban, Beckel, La Trinidad, Benguet on March 19, 2022. The farm visit provided the team with an overall view of some of the DA’s extension modalities being implemented in the

TABUK CITY, KALINGA. The province of Kalinga reached another milestone in its adoption and implementation of the Province-led Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Services (PAFES) with the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) of Kalinga, the Kalinga State University (KSU), and the Rural Based Organizations