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Reaching Out. Building Dreams. Changing Lives /ATI-CAR Narrative Report/October 2016 1

ATI-QF-PPD-03 Effectivity Date: 31 October 2013

ATI in the CORDILLERA

OCTOBER NARRATIVE REPORT

I. Enhancing Access to Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Products and

Services

A. e-Extension

Table 1. Online Courses Administered

Online courses Enrollees Graduates

Savoring the Green Brew: Arabica Coffee Production

3 1

Basic Beekeeping 16 10

Training Management 10 5

Total 29 16

B. Knowledge Products Development and Dissemination

Distributed 5,235 print knowledge products (total of all commodities)

Distributed 50 technology videos

Distributed 50 digitized materials

Subscribed to 25 newspapers/magazines (Midland, Phil. Star, Phil. Rice Magazines)

Served 33 library clients

C. Knowledge Systems Management (ICT Services)

Undertaken 55 equipment maintenance

Undertaken six (6) equipment repairs

Maintained two (2) Local Area Network connections for easier access to services via

the internet.

Maintained 10 agriculture-related data and information.

Figure 1. Mr. Bongbong Buli-e orienting BSU students



Maintained database of farmers, RBOs, LGUs, LCEs and Managers, AEWs

D. Capability Building

Appreciation Course on the Application and Functionalities of QGIS 2.8 and Global

Positioning System in Project Mapping and Monitoring for FITS Center Staff of CAR Batch 2 –October 19-21,2016 @ Benguet State University ICT Hall

Aimed to capacitate the FITS Center staff on the operation and simple application of

Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies, the

Center held the second batch of the Application and Functionalities of QGIS 2.8 and GPS

Course.

The training was

completed by 19 extension

workers, three students from

Benguet State University and three individuals from the

Diocese of Baguio-Farmers

Haven.

Outputs of this

training are 20 maps of CAR

layouted, 30 municipal boundary maps digitized, 20

sets of sampling points

collected, 20 sets of tabular

data exported to QGIS and

converted to points, 20 raster

data sets geo-referenced in QGIS, 10 sets of digitized and joined vector tables, 10 landmarks

mapped with spatial position, and 20 data sets exported from QGIS to Google Earth.

A total cost of 45,987.00 pesos was utilized in the conduct of the activity.

II. Strengthening Competitiveness and Capacities of the Agriculture and

Fisheries Sector

A. Training and Extension Support to Regular Programs and Commodities

REGULAR

Enhancement Course on Extension Delivery System (ECEDS) for New Agricultural Extension Workers of CAR –October 19-21, 2016 at ATI-CAR

The training was completed by 34 new

Agricultural Extension Workers from the provinces of

Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Mt. Province. This

training was condcuted to enhance their knowledge

and skills on extension delivery to be effective

extentionist in their respective Local Government

Units.

"As a new AEW, we must have to love our work

because when you love your work you will not count

the hours that passed but the families being served.

Call of duty is not always Monday to Friday but 24/7

not only at the office but by informal contacts. Let us not give the farmers a fish but teach them

how to fish in order to improve their quality of life", an impression shared by Ariane Mae Miguingan of LGU-San Juan, Abra.

A total cost of 76,885.00 pesos was spent for this activity.

Figure 2. Dr. Roscinto Ian C. Lumbres instructing one of the groups before their field work

Figure 3. Mr. Cristino Balancio discussing the use of paper visuals in presentation



Training on Vegetable and Root Crop-Based Product Processing, Packaging and

Labeling with GMP for RIC Organizations in Support to 4th-6th Class Municipalities of Ifugao – October 25-27, 2016 at Kiangan, Ifugao

Ifugao Province is among the region’s major producer of various root crops and

vegetables which are usually brought to the nearest trading post, the Nueva Viscaya

Agricultural Trading Center (NVAT) with high cost of transportation and high postharvest

losses. This causes very low profit of the growers. Thus, this training was conducted to

capacitate them to become rural entrepreneurs.

This was participated by 26 rural

women. They were taught on the

benefits of processing, packaging and

labeling, current good manufacturing

practices and processing of various

vegetable and root crop products.

“The learnings you have incurred

from this training should not be

forgotten but practiced and applied

for the family first then to customers.

You should serve your family with

various nutritious food and train your

children to consume locally available

and processed food. As processors, you must protect your costumers. Apply GMP to produce

safe and healthy food for them”, a message from Mr. Benjamin Lunag.

A total of 59,375.00 pesos was used for this activity.

RICE

Provincial Roll-Out of the Training of Trainers on Rice Crop Manager Use and

Operation – October 11-14, 2016 at San Isidro, Luna, Apayao

The regional Training of Trainers (TOT) on Rice Crop Manager (RCM) was conducted on

September 5-9, 2016 at Tabuk, Kalinga. Being the second largest producer of rice in CAR, the

province of Apayao raised their interest to pursue their provincial TOT this year instead of

next year.

A total of 32 Agricultural Extension Workers of

Apayao Province participated in the training. This

training enabled them to operate the RCM

application in both offline and online mode to

facilitate faster deployment of RCM

recommendations.

The activity used a total cost of 106,026 pesos.

Figure 4. Ms. Jennilyn Darcio demonstrating veggie siomai making

Figure 5. One-on-one farm interview



ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

Training on Farm Business Planning in Support to Organic Agriculture for Organic

Focals in CAR – October 11-14, 2016 at ATI-CAR

This training was held to enhance the knowledge and skills on business planning and

preparation of the Organic Agriculture (OA) focal so they could effectively guide their OA

organizations in their respective areas.

In partnership with the Center’s Extension Service Provider, the SLU-EISSIEF lead the

conduct of this training. It was participated by 25 individuals from the provinces and some

staff of the Center.

An amount of 121,660.00 pesos was utilized for this activity.

Training on OA with NC II on Organic Agriculture Production for AEWs in CAR

Batch 1- October 3-7, 2016

Batch 2- October 24-28, 2016

Two (2) batches of training on Organic Agriculture with NC II on OA Production for

Agricultural Extension Workers were conducted this month. This aimed to enhance their

knowledge and skills more importantly along the four Organic agriculture core competencies to acquire TESDA OA production NC II certification.

The four OA core competencies are:

1. Core Competency AGR611306 (Produce Organic Vegetables) 2. Core Competency AGR611301 (Produce Organic Fertilizer) 3. Core Competency AGR611302 (Produce Organic Concoctions & Extracts) 4. Core Competency AGR612301 (Raise Organic Chicken/Swine)

Figure 7. Creating unique identity through symbols Figure 7. Demo on product marketing strategy

Figure 9. Hands on practicum on "Produce Organic Fertilizer Competency"

Figure 9. Field practicum on ruminants at the DA-Dairy Farm



The NC II certification was undertaken in partnership with TESDA-Kalinga. Out of the 50 participants of the two batches, 45 of them were able to pass the OA Production NC II while

the remaining five were only awarded with Certificate of Competency.

HVCD

Training on Rootcrops and Banana Processing, Packaging, Labeling with GMP for

Women and Farmers in Kalinga – October 4-6, 2016 at TAMPCO Inn, Tabuk, Kalinga

This training was intended to

encourage participants to become rural

entrepreneurs as they engage in root crop

and banana processing and marketing

practicing the proper food handling,

processing, packaging and labeling.

A total of 69 farmers participated in

this on-site training.

“We are very much thankful to ATI for

this kind of training on processing and

GMP, it is very much helpful to us women here in Kalinga producing plenty of banana and

rootcrops. This will help maximize these crops and minimize postharvest losses”, Ms. Sylvia

Abarientos said.

An amount of 95,230.00 pesos was utilized in the activity.

CORN AND CASSAVA PROGRAM

Training on Good Agricultural Practices - Internal Control System Phase III for the

Corn and Cassava Farmer Organizations of Ifugao - October 4-6, 2016 at Ifugao State

University- Potia Campus, Alfonso Lista, Ifugao

This month, the Good

Agricultural Practices-Internal

Control System Phase III on

Cassava was conducted. In this

phase, the participants conducted

internal inspection in cassava

farms using their GAP-ICS manual.

Phase IV of the training is

scheduled on November 21-25,

2016 at the same venue.

Figure 10. Return demo by group

Figure 11. Field Inspection to cassava farms



LIVESTOCK

Farmer Livestock School on Natural Swine Farming for 4H Members and Swine Farmers of Bolo, Balantoy,Balbalan, Kalinga – April 8-October 5,2016 This month, the Farmer Livestock School on Natural Swine Farming of 4-H members and swine farmers of Bolo, Balantoy, Balbalan, Kalinga was concluded with 31 graduates. This aimed to equip the participants on alternative ways of decreasing cost of swine production especially feeding management to make swine raising as a productive and sustainable additional livelihood. Further, for them to be able to establish a technology demonstration farm as a learning venue not only for them but of the whole community.

They had an experiment on feeding scheme using four (4) treatments as follows: pure fermented feeds, commercial and fermented feeds, pure commercial feeding and farmers’ practice or cooked raw materials. Result showed that fermentation is the most effective feeding scheme since two pigs under the trial have very fine and muscular body shape, reddish and shiny hairs, alert eyes and have good body disposition. Thus, they suggested fermentation to be practiced in the locality. A total of 102,190.00 pesos was utilized for the whole duration of the activity. LIVESTOCK 2016 Regional Goat and Sheep Raisers and Stakeholders Congress and Livestock Stakeholders Meeting/Planning – October 25-27, 2016 at ATI-CAR Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has a total contribution of 54, 127 on the country’s goat population of 3,311,724. Goat and sheep raising can be an added source of income for upland farmers. To further increase and improve goat and sheep production in the region, this congress was initiated. It was designed to facilitate the sharing of experiences of successful raisers of sheep and goat in the region that could encourage more farmers to go on small ruminant raising. This also served as an avenue of updating the stakeholders on the new technologies and information of goat and sheep raising.

Figure 13. Husband and wife cooking their chevon recipe

Figure 12. Cleaning and weight estimation using tape meter

Figure 12. Graduation day



The activity proceeded with 74 participants from the various municipalities in the region. 4-H Training on Food Processing and Preservation with NC II for 4H Club Coordinator and Members of CAR - October 12-15, 2016 –October 12-15, 2016 at OPAG Benguet Technology Demonstration Center, Wangal La Trinidad Benguet Ms. Norma C. Banania who served as the trainer motivated the participants saying, "There is money in processing and preservation. I am talking here based on my experience. All you need is a lot of patience and hardwork. We have a lot of resources to be processed, just be innovative and as youths you need not to go abroad to work, learn the craft, master it, go into business and earn.” With this, the training aimed to equip the participants with different ways of processing and preserving.

Out of the 21 participants, 15 were able to secure their NC II on Food Processing while the remaining six were given Certificate of Competency. An amount of 115,000.00 pesos was spent for this activity.

III. Expanding Partnerships in Advancing Excellence in Agriculture and

Fisheries Extension Delivery

2nd Semester LGU Assembly

This month, the 2nd Semester LGU Assembly was held on October 28, 2016 at ATI-

CAR. Invited to participate were the Provincial Agriculturists, Provincial Veterinarians and

Municipal Agriculturists.

This was organized to update the Regional Association of Agriculture Office

Managers on the latest programs and activities of DA-ATI, the agriculture and fisheries

concerns at the national level and their regional organization in order to guide them in their

plans, programs and activities in their respective areas.

Figure 14. Group demo on food processing and preservation



IV. Scaling-Up Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Innovations

This month, one Learning Site on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) on lowland

vegetables was set-up. This is the Riseline Farm located at Barangay Imelda, Pudtol, Apayao. It is

owned by Ms. Riseline Crisologo. The farm was identified by the Municipal Local Government

Unit of Pudtol.

The farm has a 2,500 sq.m area being planted with various lowland vegetables such as

pepper, sitaw, patola, eggplant, parya, tomatoes, pechay, okra, upo and cucumber. The farm has

simple layout and system for easy adoption and duplication by other farmers especially the

Pudtolenians to go into safe and quality vegetable farming.

V. Strengthening Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Stakeholders Capacity in

Climate Change Adaptations and Readiness

VI. Improving Enabling Environment and Quality Governance

Planning

ATI-CAR Planning Workshop – October 10-11, 2016

The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit steered this activity to provide guidance

and direction in the preparation of the ATI-CAR 2017 Work and Financial Plan for the ATI’s

FY 2017 Planning and Budget Execution.

Figure 15. Riseline Farm: a GAP LS on lowland vegetables



Monitoring and Report Submission

Monthly physical and narrative reports of accomplishments for the month of September

were constantly submitted.

As part of the center’s transparency seal, online posting of center’s accomplishments for

the month of August was done in coordination with the Information Services Section.

Field Monitoring

On-going projects and activities monitored for the month:

1. Barangobong Farm: Organic Agriculture Learning Site at Peñarrubia, Abra. The

upgrading of its livestock component still on-going.

2. Adopt a 4-H Batch 2 being held at Peñarrubia, Abra with five participants. They will

have their NC II Assessment on Small and Large Ruminants Production on November 3

to be followed by their graduation on November 4.

3. 10 DAT-BAT Scholars currently enrolled at Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State

University (DMMMSU) Rosario, La Union. The scholars are preparing for their NC II

assessment.

4. FITS Centers of PAENRO-Ifugao, Ifugao State University, Lagawe, Banaue, Hingyon,

Kiangan, Asipulo, and Lamut. Findings show that there is a need to re-orient the FITS

staff, ATI-CAR to provide new or updated FITS signage and to advise FITS staff to use

standard format of logbook.

Other Extension Activities Attended/Conducted

1. 2016 AFNR Extension Policy Symposium held at Tagaytay International Convention

Center on October 12-13, 2016. Attended by Mr. Cristino Balancio and Mr. Bongbong Buli-e.

2. Preparation workshop and pilot training (regional) master trainer and know how multipliers for the Module on Sustainable Agriculture (MOSA) held at Lima Park Hotel, Malvar, Batangas on October 4-15, 2016. Attended by Mr. Charlie Sagudan.

3. Corn and Cassava Program 3rd Quarter Evaluation/Assessment and Planning Workshop at Ridgewood Hotel, Baguio City on October 4-6, 2016. Attended by TCS II Arlene L. Flores and Ms. Cherry Sinong.

4. Assessment of the Magsasaka Siyentista (MS) Nominees of Lagawe and Asipulo, Ifugao on October 5-6, 2016. Conducted by Mr. Maximino Aromin and Ms. Jaila Sagpa-ey.

5. Launching of the One-Stop Shop Service Center for OFWs and MOA Signing at Baguio Convention Center on October 29, 2016. Attended by TCS I Myrna Sta. Maria and Mr. Charlie Sagudan.



Table 2. SUMMARY of FUND DISBURSEMENT BY PROGRAM FUND

Program Fund Disbursement

PS 98,736.06 Regular MOOE 36,668.90

Rice -

Organic Agriculture 100,119.00

HVCD - Corn and Cassava -

Livestock - 4-H Club Program -

RBO -

TOTAL 235,523.96

Prepared and submitted by: Noted and Approved:

CHERRY S. SINONG ARLENE L. FLORES, Ph.D.

PEO I Center Director

Date: November 4, 2016

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