Published on: March 02, 2023
Updated as of March 2, 2023 11:28 am
By Marcelo Pedalino
MAASIN CITY (PIA) -- Some 125 rice farmers in three upland barangays in this city recently completed a 17-week scholarship course about upgraded farming practices supported by the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) in cooperation wth the city LGU.
The Farmers Field School (FFS), implemented by Happy Farm, a TESDA-accredited partner, covered subjects such as production of high-quality inbred rice, seed certification, and farm mechanization, held in Brgy. Bagtican, with participants from the barangay and those from Lunas and Nonok Norte.
They graduated on February 14, incidentally a love day, indicating how they wore their hearts out in their sleeves after three months of grueling weekly learning sessions which they religiously followed through the regular discipline, the rigors of basic schooling.
“Once every week for whole day, our rice farmers patiently attended the FFS class, going through tests like usual students, participating in class recitation, taking turns in class reporting, and assigning groups to lead the session,” the Office of City Agricultural Services (OCAS) which oversees the activity reported in its social media page.
A day’s class routine involved waking up while still dark, then proceed to where they are assigned as a group, collect friendly and harmful insects, apply what they learned in the previous sessions, especially on plant growth and diseases -- all these observations were jotted down clean copy and shared during class reporting.
“With the fast-paced world and agriculture as main source of the economy, there is a need for such FFS to equip our farmers and dance with the flow of modernization,” OCAS rightly pointed out.
And a boost to rice production soon, or sooner, as the end result of the sweat of ther brows, would cerntainly be music to everyone’s ears. (MMP/PIA Southen Leyte)
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