By:
Leah Agonoy - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily
Inquirer / 01:32 PM June 02, 2018
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| Senator Cynthia Villar rallies farmers and their children to learn in farmingschools to improve productivity and their financial status – Leah Agonoy |
PAGADIAN CITY – Senator Cynthia Villar on Saturday pushed for the promotion of agricultural courses in the provinces as a way of upgrading the situation of farmers and to assure food security in the country.
Villar made the push as she led the
inauguration of the Zamboanga del Sur Provincial College at the Capitol grounds
here, which offers courses related to agriculture.
As the principal sponsor of the Farm
Tourism Development Act of 2016, Villar also encouraged farmers and their
children to “learn” from the so-called farming schools across the country.
“They will not just become farmers but
also businessmen operating their farms as a small business,” she added.
Villar said a study by the Philippine
Institute for Development showed that farmers lacked the technology, among
others, to improve their lot.
“That’s why they don’t make that much.
They lacked the technology, mechanization, financial literacy, which would all
be thought at farm schools,” she added.
Villar said unless productivity ensured
the financial stability of farming families, time would come that no one would
venture into it anymore.
“If the children of farmers abandon
farming because it could not support their families, where will we get our
staple? That would be bad on our food security,” Villar said.
There were now about 1,955 farming
schools in the country, she said, where farmers and their children could learn
to increase productivity and improve their finances. She said all of these
schools would soon be accredited by the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (Tesda).
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| Committee on Agriculture chairperson Senator Cynthia Villar leads the inauguration of the ZamboSur Provincial College extension campus, a school offering agricultural courses. Congratulates also ZDS who recently got Rice Achiever's Award. Left photo is Gov Antonio H. Cerilles and second district congresswoman Aurora Enerio Cerilles (right) - Photo by Leah Agonoy |
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