Your Feedback Matters: Empowering Catandunganon Farmers through Capacity Building
ExtensionIn collaboration with Catanduanes State University – Extension Services (CatSU-ES) and Philippine Coconut Authority, Grameen Foundation USA, Inc. (GFUSA) organized a one-day assessment and closeout meeting along with the beneficiaries of the Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Cocos Program on Friday, July 21.
With the technical assistance provided by the foundation to capacitate Catandunganon farmers, the seven Coconut Farmer Organizations shared their insights and lessons learned during the implementation of the program particularly in the aspect of financial management.
Acknowledging the university’s steadfast commitment and support to the project, Regional Director in Asia and the Pacific Christine Jeanne G. Violago gladly expressed that CatSU is ‘the only state university’ that they have been ‘very successful’ and will now serve as their benchmark to enter other state college or university.
GFUSA is a non-profit registered
organization that aims to empower the poor, especially women, and eradicate
poverty as well as hunger. It ties up with CatSU through a Memorandum of
Understanding in 2021 with a mission of promoting sustainable agricultural
productivity and profitability initiatives.
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