Our agricultural team at the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines have proposed several interesting projects for the Center.
Agriculture is an important part of the training of Goducate workers because they will be working among poor communities in Asia, and the majority of the poor in Asia still live in rural communities. We hope that Goducate workers will be able to help poor Asians to maximally utilize the land around them through modern, sustainable, small-scale farming.
Therefore, our agricultural planning team is designing a living laboratory of good agricultural practices in the Camp. Our trainees will be involved “hands on” with these different projects during their training period with us so that they will be able to transfer some of what they have learned at the Camp to the communities in which they will eventually work.
Some of the proposed agricultural projects on the Camp are:
Hybrid rice production using organic fertilizer and organic integrated pest management practices.
Fish farming in rice fields.
Vermi-composting for production of organic fertilizer.
Bio-intensive vegetable farming.
Fruit orchard with durian, jackfruit, marang, seedless pomegranates, mangosteen, cocoa, etc.
Livestock, small ruminant (goats) and poultry farming.
Forage area of grass and legumes for fattening of cattle and small ruminants.
Chicken and duck egg production
Cut-flower production.
Apiculture (bee-farming) for honey production and increased pollination of plants on camp-site.
We hope that our trainees will learn the principles and practices of good agriculture and be able to transfer what is suitable to the communities that they will eventually work in!
Good agricultural practices provide the fastest ways to help poor Asians help themselves!
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