32 Agrarian-farmers complete Farm Business School training
By
Gil E. Miranda
TUBAY,
Agusan del Norte, Feb. 15 – Thirty-two Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) of
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Agusan del Norte graduated from the Farmer
Business School (FBS) in partnership with the local government unit of Tubay,
Agusan del Norte.
The
beneficiaries successfully completed the on-site entrepreneurial trainings
consisting of 25-sessions for a period of six months. The following sessions
took place at Tubay Training Center of Barangay Dona Rosario in Tubay.
The
students were Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) of the two ARBOs, namely:
DoΓ±a Rosario Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) Holders Vegetable
Producers Association (DRCHVPA) and Cabayawa Sala Farmers Association (CASAFA).
DAR
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II (PARPO II) Andre B. Atega said
that FBS is an avenue for the farmers to transform themselves from mere farmers
to farm businessmen adopting entrepreneurial skills and learning simple
accounting and bookkeeping for their vegetable production business.
“The
farmers learned a 'learning by doing' approach focused on entrepreneurial
skills to improve productivity and family income,” PARPO II Atega added.
Marlon
Nemeno, CASAFA member, said he learned from FBS effective farm management
and how farm produce are brought to the
market. “With FBS, we learned new vegetable farming technology and great
business opportunities,” Nemeno added.
Another
farmer student of FBS, Narcesa Vargas,
also said, “with the continued support,
from farm tools to entrepreneurial trainings,
I am so very thankful to DAR, Tubay local government, several line
agencies, and private-sector.”
According
to Tubay Mayor Fidel E. Garcia Jr., this project enables vegetable farmers to
benefit economic productivity that would facilitate further development.
DAR
Tubay Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer (MARPO) Luigi Rodriguez
emphasized that the convergence of the national and local government, ARBOs
benefitted a lot from the project. The strong support of Tubay-LGU also is an
added factor to the project’s full implementation in Barangay Dona Rosario. (DAR
Agusan del Norte/PIA Agusan del Norte)