The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist “Eskwelahan sa kahanginan on Organic Agriculture” needs more enrollees who will be taught new technologies and developments on organic farming and the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010.

Edna Garde, manager of the Farmers' Information and Technology Services Center, host of the radio program, said they need 150 more enrollees to complete the 550 target.

Enrollees can be farmers, organic producers, and entrepreneurs, and to those who are interested in organic farming will listen to the program where examinations and quizzes will be given on-air while answer sheets will be provided and collected by the field coordinators.

Garde said the program operates like a typical school but the difference is that students listen on-air.

Agriculturists are assigned as field coordinators who will conduct the information campaign of the program and check, collect, and record module tests of the student-listeners, she also said.

ESK on Organic Agriculture is aired in DYVS (Sweet Voice of Salvation) at 4:30a.m.-5:30a.m. Mondays to Fridays, DYRL, (Abyan Radyo) at 4:30 a.m.-5:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.-7 p.m. on Sundays, and Radyo Natin in Sipalay City at 11a.m. every Monday, she also said.

The Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center VI funds the program while the province and the OPA provided educational materials for the farmers, she added.

Meanwhile, representative of the Kauswagan Lanao del Norte government will have their educational tour on organic farming in the province on May 15 to 17 with its Municipal Mayor Rommel Arnado and 24 local officials and ATI-RTC 10 at El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, Garde said

They will tour Fresh Start Organics Display Center, Peñalosa Farm, Rapha Valley Farms, Bur-Buro Springs and Vermi Farm, OPA-Integrated Correctional and Agricultural Technology, and the organic market, she said.

Garde she will give the lecture on “Organic Agriculture: The Negros Occidental Experience” and “The Potentials of Agri-Tourism.” *LTG

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