By Florinda Concepcion | Project Leader
SIBAT's Sustainable Agriculture Training Center (SATC) has been enriched by the untiring work of SIBAT's agriculturists and farmer technicians. SIBAT's learning modules and pedagogical content are drawn from actual experiences and learning innovations from partner farming communities and farmer cooperators. Moreso that the SATC is located in SIBAT's demonstration farm also strengthens learning. With the various trainings conducted and more trainings planned primarily for partner farming communities and people's organizations, promoting and replicating sustainable agriculture practices has proved to be a sustainable approach, enabling farmers to learn and innovate on their own with SIBAT agriculturists providing the necessary advisory support.
Since then, these are the trainings that were done by the training team and SA agriculturists of SIBAT, namely Pedro Aurelio dela Cruz, Maria Pilar Castro-Pablo, Anacorita Oliquino-Abasolo, Delilah Barte and Lindon Escalante with Sansen Maglinte as the SA coordinator.
Below is a list of trainings that were conducted by the SATC team:
Hands on and onsite trainings were provided for some farming communities in the following provinces:
Bohol: Trainings on Farmer technician, Systems of Rice Intensification, Bio-intensive Gardening (BIG)
Cebu: BIG, Diversified Integrated Farming Systems (DIFS)
Negros Oriental: DIFS, BIG
Southern Leyte: Sustainable Agriculture Orientation, Farm Appraisal & Planning, Vermiculture
Mindanao: DIFS and BIG
Tarlac, Capas: Korean Natural Farming, Biofertilizer Production, BIG
Aurora: on site trainings on backyard food crop production, soil fertility and sloping agricultural land technologies
Other trainings were also provided as part of SIBAT's promotion and advocacy work:
For consumer groups: farm exposure visits of consumer advocates of organic products in support to farmers
For academe partners: organic farm orientation and discussion of agricultural issues for faculty and students
Special trainings: local staff and farm workers, and foreign volunteers of SIBAT were given agriculture framework orientation
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