JUST IN - GOOD NEWS! PRESIDENT DUTERTE TO BUILD FARM SCHOOLS AND GIVE SCHOLARSHIP TO FARMERS AND FISHERFOLKS. MUST WATCH THIS!

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will soon be building farm schools nationwide in a bid to revive the farming industry and help uplift the lives of farmers and fishers in the country.

In a statement, TESDA Director General, Secretary Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong said that the plan to build farm schools aims to provide “scholarship grants to the farmers and fisherfolks, their families and relatives, extension workers and facilitators and trainers to assist the farm owners in building the capability and capacity of their farms thus increase productivity.”

“The concept of the farm schools is based on the Farm Field Schools (FFS) developed by the UN Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help farmers become competitive and seize advantage of the opportunities in the market by operating their farms efficiently and profitably,” he said.

According to TESDA, a recent study showed that a farmer who owns 1.5 hectares of land would only earn P2,300 a month.

With this, Mamondiong said that the amount “is not sufficient for a farmer who raises a family.”

In effect, the TESDA Chief said that children of farmers “do not want to go into farming anymore because of the small earning” in the said industries.

The Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Training Institute (DA-ATI) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will be helping TESDA in finding locations where the farm schools will be built.

“I already ordered the Regional and Provincial Directors of TESDA to inform their localities about the future farm schools and enlist in this program,” Mamondiong said.

Source: PINOYNEWZ