BAYAMBANG, Pangasinan — Junior high school students and farmers here learned organic farming techniques such as foliar feeding and composting when the Municipal Nutrition Committee and Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) conducted a hands-on training on July 12 and 13 at the Bayambang National High School (BNHS).
“The training was intended to teach the students about organic farming and for them to eventually have passion for farming or planting. Also, for them to do organic farming, since it is not just nutritious but also safe and environment-friendly,” Malvar Iglesias, agricultural technician of Bayambang town, said in an interview on Friday.
“The participants were taught how to produce fish amino acid, fermented plant juice, fermented fruit juice, calcium solution among others, as well as the different strategies of composting and how to hasten the composting process,” he noted.
Iglesias said the activity is in line with the Nutrition Month celebration this July with the theme “Ugaliing Magtanim, Wastong Nutrisyon Aanihin”.
After the training, the participating schools received agricultural tools and seeds from the municipal government “so they can continue planting in their school garden as they committed to apply what they have learned,” Iglesias said.
Fifteen farmers and 11 high schools with five students each, except for BNHS which had 20 attendees, participated in the two-day activity, he noted.
“We will continue to monitor the schools, if they would need additional trainings in the future then we will conduct more,” Iglesias said. (Hilda Austria/PNA)
