DA conducts 5TH ROAC in Laoag with 200 attendees

The Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office I, through the Organic Agriculture Program, conducted the 5th Regional Organic Agriculture Congress (ROAC) with the theme, โ€œKabuhayang OA, Kinabukasang OKโ€ at Centennial Arena, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte on August 31, 2023. The congress convened around 200 stakeholders composing of organic agriculture practitioners in the region, organic read more…

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The DA-RFO 1 and DOLE Region 1 are looking for 56 qualified youth interns who will participate in the GIP ABE Youth Government Internship Program. Minimum Qualifications:โฃใ€€ Must be a graduate of ๐š๐ง๐ฒ Agriculture-related course;โฃ No work experience; and Must be 21-30 years old For interested applicants, submit the following documents to ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ.๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ@๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ฅ.๐œ๐จ๐ฆ until ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ read more…

34 DA Ilocos employees undergo SDC training

In a stride towards fostering competent and credible civil servants, the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 1 (DA RFO 1) provided training for 34 of its employees in the first track of the Supervisory Development Course (SDC). Designed by the Civil Service Commission, this course is the first segment of a comprehensive three-track training read more…

SOA – SRA program completes its third season with 2,582 rice farmers in Ilocos Region

A total of 2,582 farmers from 33 municipalities/cities in Region 1 received certificates of completion of the School on-the-Air on Smart Rice Agriculture (SOA-SRA) program with the theme “Makabagong Pagsasaka a Himpapawid” in a mass graduation held by the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center (ATI-RTC) 1 on August 4, 2023, at the Urdaneta City Cultural read more…

Advocacy Planning Workshop held to push OA agenda

Department of Agriculture (DA) Information Officers, Marketing Officers, and Regional Organic Agriculture focals were convened by the National Organic Agriculture Program (NOAP) on July 24-27,2023 in Davao City for an Advocacy Planning Workshop which aims to firm up various advocacy support activities for the Organic Agriculture Program. NOAP Program Director Bernadette F. San Juan in read more…

La Union farmers receive P3.1M worth of Agri interventions

Six Farmers Associations from the first district of La Union received a total of Php3,172,204 worth of Agri-machineries and equipment distributed by the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office 1 on July 21, 2023, at the Ilocos Region Integrated Agricultural Research Center (ILIARC) in Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union. The interventions handed over with the assistance of read more…