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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 28 (PNA) -– The Department of Agriculture (DA) is holding a two-day technology forum on Adlai production in the nearby town of Dinas, this province.
Wee said the two-day
event will showcase Adlai production and management technologies in varying
crop stages, regional booths and exhibits, Adlai farm machinery demonstration,
post-harvest processing technologies, Adlai value-added products, farmer’s
forum and symposium, among others.
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 28 (PNA) -– The Department of Agriculture (DA) is holding a two-day technology forum on Adlai production in the nearby town of Dinas, this province.
DA-9 PIO Melba Wee |
The two-day event,
dubbed as the First National Adlai Grand Farmer’s Field Days and Technology
Forum, is set to be held next month from Sept. 3-4 with no less than DA
Secretary Proceso Alcala as the keynote speaker.
Alcala has helped
promote Adlai as alternative food crop.
DA Regional
Information Officer Melba Wee said Thursday the two-day activity will be
spearheaded by DA Regional Director Constancio Alama and the Zamboanga
Peninsula Integrated Agricultural Research Center (ZAMPIARC) in collaboration
with the Mindanao Zonal Research Development and Extension Network, Bureau of
Agricultural Research, High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP), National
Adlai Technical Working Group and the municipal government Dinas.
Adlai is a tall-grain
bearing tropical plant that has been growing abundantly in the country and is
being cultivated since ancient times as staple food.
Wee said more or less
1,000 farmers, Local Government Units (LGUs), private sector representatives
and investors from Mindanao and other parts of the country are expected to join
the momentous event.
Wee also said the
forum will be held in Dinas since the town has been very supportive to DA’s
Adlai production program, as it has a four-hectare farm now being used as
techno-demo farm by the Betinan Agricultural Research Station of San Miguel
town.
She said DA is
promoting Adlai as one of the important alternative food crops in support of
DA’s Food Staple Sufficiency Program.
The two-day forum is
themed: “Harnessing the Potentials of Adlai as Additional Staple Food for
Filipinos.” (PNA)
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