LGU-Umingan's
representatives from the Municipal Agriculture Office attended the CRS
Clustering Approach to Agroenterprise Development for Small Farmers
facilitated by DAR-CRS (Department of Agrarian Reform and Catholic Relief
Services)held at the City Light Hotel,Baguio City last September 7-11, 2015.
The group composed of Four (4) Regions namely; Region I
,(Bani,Bautista,Bayambang,Sta Barbara,Umingan,Pangasinan)Region III (Pampanga,Nueva
Ecija) Region IV-A&B (Quezon Province,Occ. Mindoro) Region V (Legaspi) .
The purpose of
this Training Course is to help farmers to work more effectively together and
build their marketing skills against poverty problem .It also aims for improvement
of rural livelihoods, establishment of marketing links between farmers , buyers
,businesses and identification of new sources of consistent supply.
The DAR-CRS
agroenterprise Clustering approach is being employed in
Barangays Luna Este and Luna Weste. The program started in 2013 , with
Squash as the selected product and the OTOP (one town one product) of Umingan .
Now, the program
is expected to target squash farmers in Barangays Concepcion,Diaz,San Juan and
Ricos to meet the target requirement : 600 farmers per Municipality.The
selected barangay for expansion will be getting services which will focus
on farm management improvements,market
preparation and market engagement through collective marketing strategies.
Contributed by:
Alex C. Abalos
