by Anjanette V. Vallejera
DIPOLOG CITY, June
18 (PIA) - - Twenty one agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from MNSR agrarian
reform community (ARC) have recently completed a training on agro-forestry held
at barangay Motibot, Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte.
The training, which
was spearheaded by the provincial office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)
through the Agrarian Reform Communities Project 2 (ARCP2), taught the
participants the Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT 1-4) in support of
the Agriculture and Enterprise Development (AED), one of the major components
of the project.
AED aims to
transfer technology and develop entrepreneurship among ARCs to increase
productivity and income in cultivated lands through the adoption of sustainable agro-forestry
farming system in which tree, crop and animal productions are being integrated.
The training also
aimed to alleviate and curb malnutrition in the uplands by helping the
beneficiaries improve their incomes through sustainable farming technologies.
Agro-forestry technology is only one of the interventions to achieve such a
goal.
Farmer-trainer
Carlito Ventozillada served as training facilitator, assisted by Epifanio
Murro, ARCP2 AED committee chairperson of MNSR-ARC in Sindangan town.
Ventozillada was
one of those farmer-facilitators trained in Bansalan, Davao del Sur on
agro-forestry SALT 1-4.
Development
facilitators assigned in the ARC would be monitoring the training participants
to determine whether or not they religiously practice and apply the
technologies taught to them. Should they be found to have seriously adopted and
practice these technologies, they would be given another training which is on
natural farming system (NFS). (FPG/AVN/PIA-Zamboanga del Norte)