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YOUNG FARMERS COVID-19 SURVIVORS CONTEST
The Department of Agriculture is strongly pushing for urban gardening under its Plant, Plant, Plant Program to ensure food sufficiency as the country battles COVID-19. This is DA’s proactive stance to mitigate the socio-economic impacts and avert possible lack of food supply in the community, no less than DA Secretary William D. Dar himself had posed a challenge for everyone to engage in backyard or home gardening. With current COVID-19 restrictions, wherein the public is advised to stay at home, Dar urged the public to also take this time as an opportunity to get into urban gardening and make use of those idle spaces at home.
The DA-RFO 8 thru it’s AGRILADO radio farm program in coordination with DYXV 98.3 Magik FM – Tacloban, and “Kabulig Mo Kami, Sangkay - 819 Khz, DYVL Aksyon Radyo – Palo, Leyte, jointly conduct an “Urban Gardening Contest” dubbed as “Young Farmers COVID-19 Survivors Contest” starting May to June 2020.
To know the contest mechanics, check this link: BRIEFER.
To join, accomplish the ENROLLMENT FORM and e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
LATEST NEWS
DA–RFO 8 celebrates 122nd Founding Anniversary
To commemorate the founding of the Department of Agriculture in 1898, the DA–Regional Field Office 8 held a simple, albeit memorable, ceremony at the 4th Floor Conference Room, Green Building, on June 23, 2020.
Construction of P33M PRDP FMR Project in E. Samar to commence soon
The construction of the Improvement of Maytigbao-Balogo FMR Project is about to begin after the successful groundbreaking ceremony held on May 28, 2020 in Brgy. Maytigbao, Maydolong, Eastern Samar.
If you will recall, just last month I posted the story of a 40-year old farmer from Brgy. Bulod, Sta. Fe, Leyte who was generous enough to spare at least 20 free packs of his farm produce everyweek for his neighbors. He had done this, since the onslaught of Covid-19 pandemic which started in March, this year.
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If one is updated on recent developments, surely he/she would not have missed the clear and present danger posed by diseases hounding the livestock industry.
From learner to preacher: Albert Tampus advocates the use of Bio Gas Digester
“I am happy to share what I know. I will be happier to see more farmers like me having better lives with reduced expenses and saving the world mitigate pollution,” Albert Tampus, 52, said.
Hybrid Rice Farmer in Leyte Rises
Born and raised in the rural area of Barangay Cabangkalan, Sta. Fe, Leyte and getting to grips with manual and conventional rice production was initially a “toxic job” for 49-year old Lorenzo C. Caca, Jr.
Nature’s twist of events has it that five (5) years after super typhoon Yolanda’s fatal giant waves wreaked havoc in Brgy. San Antonio, Basey, Samar, it is now the farmers’ turn to make waves in backyard livestock production.
Qualities of a Good SAAD Farmer’s Association
Since September 2018, the Regional Program Management Support Office (RPMSO) 8 has undertaken the status monitoring of different interventions provided to farmer-beneficiaries. During these field visits, the Monitoring Team has cursorily but keenly observed certain attributes of associations situated in SAAD-covered areas in Region 8 that, when taken together, would ideally make them stand out above the rest.
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