THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), through its Farm Business School (FBS) program, is conducting training in Zamboanga Sibugay to provide knowledge and enhance the entrepreneurial skills of the farmers.

Engineer Gina Calunsag, FBS provincial focal person, said 30 farmers who are members of the Agro-Women Workers Association are currently undergoing 25 training sessions.

The participants of the training, which started on Tuesday, September 25, are spouses of the agrarian reform beneficiaries in Timbabauan village, Tungawan town.

Calunsag said the training started on Tuesday, September 25, and is set to end on the second week of October.

Mohammad Dassan Adju, Zamboanga Sibugay provincial agrarian reform program officer, said the program is a tool to increase farmers’ production and income.

Adju said the training will all revolve in the concept of managing the farm business like organizing, producing, monitoring and marketing.

The program is applying the “learning by doing” methodology and farmer-to-farmer exchange of knowledge approach.

Adju said the participants of the program will be given a hands-on training on production as well as marketing of high-value crops.

The FBS is a type of schooling that takes place outside the formal education system.

Its objective is to work with farmers to help them acquire knowledge and enhance their entrepreneurial skills to make their farms more profitable. (Bong Garcia/SunStar Philippines)