Groups in Davao set drive to entice youths to agri

SOME 500 youths are the target participants of a forum to be initiated by several government and non-government organizations this October 30 to encourage them to engage in agriculture.

The event will be organized by Interface Development Interventions, Inc. (Idis) in partnership with Grean Pea and Masipag Mindanao, City Agriculture Office, and Ateneo de Davao University.

Idis Executive Director Mary Ann Fuertes told the media during last Thursday’s I Speak forum held at the City Hall conference room that they are targeting the youth because they will be the future farmers in the country.

“I-target namo sa youth kay [sila] man ang sunod nga producer [og wala na’y farmers] sa future,” Fuertes said expressing further that nowadays, the trend is that the youth take lesser interest in agriculture which plays an essential role because without it there will be no food supplies.

Ang paglantaw sa youth [karon] sa agriculture kay baba pero unsa man ang atong kan-on kung wala’y farmer?” Fuertes asked to imply the possible scenario that the future might hold if today’s youth will not engaged in farming.

During the forum, they will encourage the youth to take up agricultural courses and teach them how to do farming and make it profitable so that the youth will be encouraged to take up agriculture-related courses, agribusiness, packaging, and marketing.

“[Mao na ang] kailangan gayud karon kay makahadlok nga wala na gayud ta’y magsaka, wala nay mag produce og rice kay pagtan-aw nila baba kaayo ang agriculture pero wala nila natan-aw nga walata’y pagkaon kung wala’y mag-uuma (These are essential because it is scary to think that there are no farmers in the future who will produce our food supplies because the youths do not have interest in agriculture. They do not see that we will not have food if we do not have farmers),” Fuertes said in the vernacular.

The current farmers that the countries now have are already old and their children are not following their steps to become farmers, Fuertes also expressed.

The speakers for the forum will come from Kahayag Farm and Masipag Mindanao who will tackle about food situation here in Mindanao including speakers from the academe who are teaching organic agriculture.

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