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DILIMAN, Quezon City—There is a emerging trend among some schools in the National Capital Region: school gardens are upscaling into needs-sensitive, pedagogic, cooperative, and productive institutions when it comes to urban and peri-urban agriculture.

Edible gardening using tires is showcaased at the Deparo Elementary School, Caloocan City (Photo Credits: Zcid Bautista Hernaez)

For the first quarter of 2022 alone, the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) successfully launched a total of 21 school-based urban agriculture

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Central Luzon's representative, Ronel de Guzman, participates in the 3-minute speech contest during the 2nd Youth in Agriculture Summit preliminary activity conducted by the Agricultural Training Institute. (photo by ATI Central Luzon)

 

DILIMAN, Quezon City–The voices of the youth in agriculture were, once again, amplified during the 2nd Youth in Agriculture Summit.

In the 3-minute Speech Contest held as part of this year’s summit, 16 young Filipinos from different parts of the country called on their fellow Millennials and Gen Zs to be involved and help bring change in the agriculture and fisheries sector in the

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DILIMAN, Quezon City—In these trying times where day-to-day challenges include the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and price hike of commodities, the only way to survive is to save more than usual. 

Felimon “Boy” Santander, a Magsasaka Siyentista in Davao City, promotes the use of biogas especially in backyard swine production projects and as a common energy source for local communities. 

Food intake is a basic daily need of humans, and to do so, cooking is required. Now, imagine being able to eat everyday without having to spend on gas tanks needed for cooking? Say, for almost

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QUEZON CITY, Philippines—Aimed at capacitating agriculture stakeholders on the production and marketing management of agricultural products in urban set-up, the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) recently conducted a three-day Training on Agripreneurship for Urban Agriculture Coordinators. 

ATI’s OIC Deputy Director Antonieta J. Arceo emphasized the thrust of the Department of Agriculture

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Simultaneous with this year’s Filipino Food Month, the Department of Agriculture (DA), along with its attached agencies and bureaus, celebrate the High Value Crops Week today until April 13, stressing the vital role of diversification for recovery and sustainability of the Philippine agriculture.

DA and its attached agencies and bureaus celebrate the High Value Crops Week 2022 with the theme “Farm Diversification with High Value Crops: Key to Recovery and Sustained Growth”.

This is also made to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the implementation of Republic Act No

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Nadia Kristina Ona, a 28-year-old young farmer and entrepreneur, is hoping that more millennials and Gen Zs will give farming a chance and find some important things she found in the field: passion and community.

YAP Awardee Nadia Kristina Ona from CALABARZON shares her farming journey during the Program's culmination event.

Nadia is one of the participants of the Youth in Agripreneurship Program (YAP) from CALABARZON. She is also one of the 27 winners of the program’s business-pitching competition from

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QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), in partnership with the Local Government Unit of Quezon City (QC), recently launched the very first Greenhouse Village for MB Farmville at Barangay Payatas.

The greenhouse was established to promote the importance of urban agriculture as a source of food, income, and a way to foster community interaction. As the first

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Joseph Navarro of YGOAL, Inc. shares tips in designing virtual learning activities.

 

DILIMAN, Quezon City—As the enabler and catalyst of the country's extension system, the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) is gearing up for more training and educational programs that will keep the  cycle of learning in the agri-fishery sector going even in today's new normal landscape.

To ensure that these capacity-building efforts are still appropriate and effective despite

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Drip irrigation technology is used in vegetable production at Sanctuario Nature Farms in Indang, Cavite.

DILIMAN, Quezon City—Rainwater collection and drip irrigation are only some of the ways that Sanctuario Nature Farms does to save water and maintain sustainable agricultural practices.

In a radio interview, farm managers Kathy and Clifford Ballesteros talked about their do-it-yourself setup for rainwater harvesting using multiple plastic drums. The small-scale system that they have can

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DA-BSWM experts are recommending the use of organic fertilizer in combination with inorganic fertilizer in rice production. (photo by PhilRice)

DILIMAN, Quezon City—To help minimize production costs in rice farming amid the rising prices of fertilizer, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is campaigning for the combined use of inorganic and organic fertilizers.

Under its program on Balanced Fertilization Strategy (BFS), DA bureaus and attached agencies, led by the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), are promoting “Abonong swak

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