Sustainable Organic Agriculture - Apprenticeship

RATIONALE

• Sustainable and organic agriculture is the ultimate answer to the worsening problems of environmental degradation, increasing health risks due to contaminated farm produce and unstable food production supply.
• The Green Revolution farming technology which is chemical-based and input- intensive has been proven destructive to the environment and unsustainable in providing food security.
• It is in response to these scenarios that the Villegas Organic and Hobby Farms in collaboration with the Kalipunan ng Sustenableng Agrikultura at Magsasakang Organiko (Kasama Ka Organik Koop) and the Sagip Environment Foundation, Inc. has designed this Apprenticeship Training program on Sustainable and Organic Agriculture.
• Our training design caters three levels of manpower capacity building: namely; the labor force who are the front line implementors, the supervisors and the technicians.
• The program provides maximum experiential learning on sustainableand organic farming under the natural farm environment where the concepts, principles and practices of sustainable organic agriculture and zero waste management is demonstrated and practiced with focus on hands-on practicum.

OBJECTIVE

• To equip the participants the basic knowledge and positive attitudes on sustainable and organic agriculture and zero wastes management , and transfer the science-based and indigenous organic farming technologies including the production of organic farm inputs and practices, and their ultimate adoption by the participants.
• To promote and propagate the sustainable and organic agriculture at all levels from the farm, community and the country.

IMMEDIATE OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES

• Well informed, enlightened and hands-on trained participants who will serve as core promotors, trainors and adoptors of sustainable and organic agriculture.

METHODOLOGY

• Lecture and experiential sharing on the concepts, principles and practices of Sustainable and Organic Agriculture and down-to-earth hands-on practicum of science-based and indigenous organic technologies and practices , production of organic farm inputs and their applications.

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