By Luis Fernando Sanabria | General Manager
The San Francisco Agriculture School is located at Km 46.5 of the Ruta Transchaco in the town of Cerrito, the Department of President Hayes (Paraguayan Chaco). The students who conclude their studies at our School earn two diplomas: High School Diploma as an Agriculture/Livestock Technician and as a Hotel and Tourism Technician.
In order to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in rural youth and provide them with high quality and accessible education, the School has almost 7000 m2 (75,347 sq. ft.) of buildings consisting of classrooms, library, computer lab, administrative and academic area, multi-purpose hall, student cooperative, dining hall, soccer field, men and women’s dormitories, and restroom facilities, among other installations.
On the 62 hectares (153 acres) of the property on which the school is located, hands-on work is done accordingly at the different productive units, among which are: raising goats, layer hens and broilers, dairy and milk processing plant, bio-intensive vegetable gardening, extensive cropping, raising swine, beekeeping, a tree nursery, as well as the Hotel, called Cerrito.
The School’s students have so far come from eight Departments of our country as well as from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti and Mali.
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