In their search for knowledge and skills, some 50 sugarcane farmers and District Mill Officers of the Sugar Regulatory Admi-nistration (SRA) came to Banga, Aklan to attend the Planning Workshop on Community Based Par-ticipatory Extension Manage-ment. The group is led by Dr. Rodrigo E. Tapay, Manager of the SRA, Visayas.
The group from Negros Occidental arrived in Banga, Aklan on October 21. They have gone around the ASU Banga Campus and the Bakhawan Eco Park in Kalibo. According to Dr. Eden DLR. Bautista, Training Specialist of the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), the Negros Occidental group will be in Banga until Sunday, October 25.
While in Aklan, they will develop a more effective teamwork between the sugarcane farmers on one hand and the SRA officials on the other; gain new insights on participatory principles, planning, implementation, project monitoring, and evaluation; acquire knowledge, competence and skills in farm productivity; and set up goals and objectives in a workable plan.
The training is managed by ATI training specialists led by Dr. Eden DLR Bautista. Other discussion leaders are Dr. Evangeline C. Sulabo of the Institute of Com-munication College of Public Affairs, UP at Los Baños, Dr. Virginia R. Cardenas, Vice Chancellor, UP at Los Baños, and Dr. Teresita T. Jereza of SRA, Bacolod City.
Dr. Ambrosio R. Villorente, chairman, Aklan Provincial Agriculture and Fishery Council, welcomed them during the opening program held on Thursday morning, October 22 in ATI Regional Training Center in Banga. He also discussed with them the need to develop the young and progressive farmers who will produce and supply the food needs of the Filipinos. /MP
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