LALA, Lanao del Norte – The Planning Monitoring Evaluation Unit (PMEU) of the center had started a series of provincial consultations since July and are now down to two more provinces. Lanao del Norte being the second to the last province, iFarm became the host of the said activity.

iFarm is a Learning Site accredited by the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center X (ATI-RTC X) solely owned by Mr. John C. Mancao. Aisde from this, they also have partnership programs with TESDA, Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office X (DA-RFO X) and PLGU-Lanao del Norte.

The PAOs, MAFC chairs and representatives along with the Agricultural Extension Workers (AEWs) as partners in extension delivery has been instrumental in attaining the center’s extension efforts for its clients and beneficiaries as well as towards a more fruitful partnership with various stakeholders.

With its effort to come up with unified extension services and implementation of trainings among the five provinces in the region namely Misamis Occidental, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon, and Camiguin, the 2019 Provincial Consultation and Training Needs Validation for 2020 with Training Needs Survey for 2021 was organized to harmonize the trainings and extension activities of the center as well as foster needs-based trainings.

A total of 12 municipalities participated the activity. They were made to answer several forms in order for the center to determine the different training needs of each municipality and in order to cater more of their training requests. (with reports from Angelica B. Villarta, Technical Support Staff)