To innovate, transform and empower the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) intensified its provision of trainings to farmers and agricultural extension workers in Central Luzon.

The digital agriculture course or the use of information and communications technology to discuss new practices is among the agency’s priorities.

ATI Regional Information Officer Aeron Bermudez said they are continuously providing knowledge on new farming practices through training activities, and information education, and communication materials to reach far-flung areas.

ATI also offers trainings on climate change to teach farmers to mitigate and adapt to the effects of the shifts in temperature and weather patterns. And likewise provides agripreneurship trainings for agro and enterprise development.

The agency has established learning sites for agriculture serving as its partners in promoting the use of modern agriculture technology in communities.

“We are supporting these learning sites through financial and technical assistance so that these sites, also called as farm schools, will enable us to have progressive farmers who are doing and practicing the modern methods of technology,” Bermudez emphasized.

ATI also has radio programs to reach out to their clients in remote locations all over the region. Bermudez pressed that the training activities are given for free to farmers and agricultural extension workers to develop and sustain agricultural services.

“The priority of ATI in our trainings are those in fourth or fifth class municipalities in the region,” he stated.

The trainings are coursed through provincial and municipal agriculture offices. For further information on the trainings, the public may connect to ATI through its website at ati2.da.gov.ph/ati-3, email address at atiregion3@ati.da.gov.ph, or its Facebook page at @ATICentralLuzon. (PIA 3)