A graduation of Farmers’ Field
School (FFS) - Palay Check System was held for the first time this year at Hda.
Mimi in Brgy. X last Jan. 28.
The
occasion was graced by the presence of Councilor Abelardo Bantug, III (SP
Committee Chairman on Agriculture), Councilor Sulpicio Montinola,
Representative of Mayor Francis Frederick Palanca, Red Palanca, and Provincial
IPM Coordinator and representative of OPA & ATI. Carlito Indencia.
The FFS-Palay Check System is a
national training program of the Department of Agriculture designed to transfer
updated technologies to farmers for increasing local rice production.
Farmers
meet once a week for a period of 16 to 18 weeks, or an equivalent of one rice
cropping season from pre-planting to harvesting.
As
an off-shoot of the training, the FFS graduates organized themselves into an
association known as the Mimi Organic Farmers’ Association (MOFA) to ensure
further development of their rice farms as government assistance is usually
channelled through people’s organizations.
On the same occasion, the officers of
the MOFA were inducted by Councilor Montinola, while the 28 rice farmers were
confirmed graduate of FFS-Palay Check by Indencia.
The
newly concluded training held at the farm residence of Mr. Aujero was sponsored
by the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), the Office of the Provincial
Agriculturist (OPA), and the City Government of Victorias.
Same trainings
will be replicated in other rice-producing barangays this year, as part of the
priority development agenda of the present administration under the leadership of
the Mayor Francis Frederick Palanca with the battle cry, “Sa Pag ASENSO Sang
Victoriahanon!” 
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