FPRDI trains Pangasinan rice farmers
September 15, 2015
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(Above) Farmer-trainees from San Nicolas, Pangasinan listen as DOST-FPRDI’s Eduardo Atienza discusses the basic finishing techniques used in making bamboo handicrafts. (Below) Participants learn how to prepare bamboo raw materials; and some of their finished products.
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Twenty-seven farmers and two local government unit (LGU) staff attended the recent trainingon bamboo handicraft production which was initiated by the Local Government of San Nicolas under the Bottoms-Up Budgeting Project of the Department of Trade and Industry(DTI), with the help of Pangasinan’s DOST- Provincial Science and Technology Center.
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According to San Nicolas Mayor Rebecca Mejica-Saldivar the three-day course which covered raw material preparation and finishing has opened up additional livelihood options for the farmers especially during their downtime, after they have planted and harvested rice. (Rizalina K. Araral, 14 September 2015)#
