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QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) continues to sustain and solidify its role as the knowledge bank, catalyst, enabler, and lead agency in professionalizing the Philippine agricultural extension system by developing more competent resource persons (RPs) among its technical workforce.

A total of 27 ATI Central Office and Training Centers personnel completed

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SAN MATEO, Isabela—Recognizing the need to continuously capacitate agricultural extension workers (AEWs) and farmer-leaders (FLs), the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) concluded this year’s series of “Training of Trainers (TOT) on Basic Leadership and Technical Skills for Small Water Irrigation System Association (SWISA) and AEWs” last October 10-14, 2022 at ATI’s Training Center in

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DILIMAN, Quezon City—Duck-raising has been a good source of income for Jesus Unabia, Jr., Magsasaka Siyentista and farm manager of the Golden Egg Duck Farm in Victoria, Laguna.

One of the reasons for this, according to him, is because ducks have strong immunity against diseases and the demand for duck eggs is high.

“We started in 1986… Income from duck farming is good especially here in

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QUEZON CITY, Philippines—Fresh from an 11-month internship in Taiwan, 29 young farmers are back in the country, armed with broader knowledge and experiences. “Yung learnings, hindi na iyon makukuha sainyo; andyan na iyan sainyo. Yung hinihingi lang namin [as program managers] is for you to share what you’ve gained from the Taiwan experience–in terms of knowledge and skills–to your fellow

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DILIMAN, Quezon City—Members of farmers’ associations and organizations can have direct access to small-scale irrigation projects (SSIPs) through grants provided by the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM).

Engr. Alberto De Guzman, chief of the BSWM’s Design and Engineering Section under the Water Resources Management Division, talked about this in detail

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DILIMAN, Quezon City - In line with the celebration of Farm Safety Month, the Agricultural Training Institute’s (ATI) teleradyo program introduced the safety measures being observed and promoted on the use of agricultural machinery.

Marvin Estimada, Science Research Specialist I facilitates the proper use of hand tractor during one of the hands-on trainings under R

 
Engr. Aldrin Badua, chief of the Enterprise Division of the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech), stressed the

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DAVAO CITY, Davao del Sur—With focus on community production, and processing projects that promote organized production and value chain systems towards increased productivity, the Mindanao cluster of the Farm and Fisheries Clustering and Consolidation (F2C2) Island-wide Summits was recently conducted at The Ritz Oases Garden Resort, spearheaded by the Agricultural Training Institute’s

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Korean agricultural cooperation officers from EPIS and KRC, together with some partner experts, give inputs on the development of the ATI-proposed youth internship program on smart farming. (photo by Julrose Dela Torre)

DILIMAN, Quezon City—Officers and experts from the Korea Agency of Education, Promotion, and Information Service in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (EPIS) and the Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) met with officials from the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) for a pre-feasibility study of the “Internship Program for Young Filipino

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Officials from the DA-Livestock Group, including National Livestock Program Director and ITCPH Director Ruth Miclat-Sonaco, express their support for the Livestock Philippines expo during a press conference last August 16, 2022 at Sequoia Hotel, Quezon City. (photo by Livestock Philippines)

DILIMAN, Quezon City - As the capacity-building agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) is set to participate in the biggest livestock exhibit in the country on August 24-26, 2022 at the World Trade Center.

Organized by Informa Markets of the Informa Group, the Livestock Philippines expo is expected to gather around 10,000 participants from

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BPP youth trainees in North Cotabato during one of their workshops. (photo by: ATI RTC-XII)

 

After the successful implementation of the Binhi ng Pag-asa Program (BPP) series of trainings in six (6) provinces, a total of 270 youth are now allies of the Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI) in the development of the agriculture and fisheries (A&F) sector. These graduates are from the nine (9) batches of province-level trainings that were simultaneously

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