ATI @ Ilocos Region

Ilocos Norte is aiming to become the “dragon fruit capital” of the Philippines. With its climate and soil suitable to the production of this cactus food crop, the province, through its provincial and local government, have crafted a program to make Ilocos Norte “saniata country”.

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan - The Cabitnongan Sampaguita 4H Club, San Nicolas, Pangasinan is one of the recipients of livelihood project on a roll over scheme through the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Training Institute – Regional Training Center I (DA-ATI-RTC I) purposely for Broiler Production.

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan -  Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center 1 (ATI-RTC 1) Director Rogelio C. Evangelista challenged the scholars in the Youth in Agriculture and Fisheries Program (YAFP) and the Expanded Human Resource Development Program (EHRDP) to make a difference on themselves out of their scholarships.

STA. BARBARA , Pangasinan - The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides a broad perspective on the nature of technology, how to use and apply a variety of technologies, and the impact of ICT on self and society. Agricultural Extension Workers (AEWs) will be encouraged to grapple with the complexities, as well as the advantages and disadvantages, of technologies in our lives and workplaces. The ICT is not stand alone, but rather to be infused within core projects and programs of the government.

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan - Technology will serve today’s extension workers well - in entry level work and beyond, in further study and lifelong learning, and in their personal lives as inquisitive, reflective, discerning and caring citizens. Advanced technologies are more pervasive today than they have ever been, and their uses are expanding continually. Information Communication Technology (ICT) is significantly enhancing and altering human activity, and enabling us to live, work, and think in ways that most of us never thought possible.

She has a Facebook account and uses the Yahoo Messenger to communicate with her fellow farmers. She goes around her 10-hectare cornfield and stops to share with her farm workers what she has learned from a recent training or seminar she has attended abroad. But the truth is that Rosalie Ellasus has no background in farming.

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan - Vibrancy of the network was manifested with the early arrival of the members and then eventual start of the meeting last August 4, 2010 here at the ATI-RTC I Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan.  Twenty six members from the local government units, the DA attached agencies, other government agencies and academe took part in the discussion and the provision of insights in the draft Memorandum of Understanding for the agriculture and fisheries.

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan - In any development efforts in the countryside, our government taps the farmers, fisherfolks, women and youth to implement projects.  It is in this context that different organizations have been organized to actively involve them in all areas of economic activity in the community, to improve their economic potentials and thereby increasing their economic income.