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Agri Dept, DepEd sign deal to boost agri-fishery education in 136 schools

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur—The Department of Education and Department of Agriculture have teamed up to improve agriculture and fishery education in the country’s 136 agri-fishery schools, a Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies received by the DepEd region 9 office here recently said.

The MoU, signed by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala and Education Secretary Armin Luistro, stipulated that the two agencies “would share resources to better serve students who choose to work in the agri-fishery sector.”

Luistro said “We should change the image of agri-fishery schools and focus their curriculum on local development” even as Alcala pledged “to extend technical help by providing resource persons to train tech-voc mentors in agriculture and fishery education.”

Alcala said DA would also provide seedlings, fingerlings, fertilizers and other production inputs for the development of demonstration farms, nurseries and breeding stations as well as offer scholarships to deserving graduating high school students.

The    MoU would be effective for two school years, renewable every year based on the positive outcome of the joint undertaking, Luistro said.

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He added that DepEd’s recently implemented Strengthened Technical-Vocational Education Program also seeks to equip secondary school graduates with Tesda-certificates.

This will allow them to venture into entrepreneurship, he added. 

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