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NTA gives coop training, livelihood courses fo tobacco farmers, dependents
THE National Tobacco Administration (NTA) will be training a total of 1,470 for the agency’s capability training courses in batches from June to November this year.
This is in line with the NTA’s thrust to provide continuous education to the tobacco farmers and extension workers for cooperativism and for livelihood project development.
The training courses were divided into two: the CDA (Cooperative Development Authority) Standard Training Modules and the Livelihood Training Courses.
Beneficiaries for each course were cooperative workers and leaders from tobacco growing provinces and women and children of tobacco-growing families in Regions 1 and Abra.
Livelihood Project
NTA’s Farm Technology and Services Department (FTSD) has started conducting training on Meat Processing to women and children of tobacco farmers.
A total of 117 trainees completed the two-day training, which was conducted in four batches: June 17-18; 19-20; 24-25; 26-27. The selected trainees are dependents of tobacco farmers from different municipalities in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Abra, La Union, and Pangasinan.
The training was held at NTA AgriPinoy Tobacco Farmers Food Processing Plant and Trading Center in Nanguneg, Narvacan, Ilocos Sur.
The participants were trained on making popular processed meat products such as pork siomai, skinless longganisa, embutido, and pork nuggets.
The training courses are interventions by the NTA to maximize the agriculture-based operations. The agency will also support the selected participants in training other eligible family members so that they can form a subgroup from their existing cooperatives or associations to avail of micro-financing for employment.
The training on meat processing in June was first of FTSD’s livelihood training courses, which also includes organic fertilizer/off-season vegetable production (scheduled in July); bread, cake and pastry making (August); herbal tea making (August); noodle making (September); therapeutic massage (September to October); hair/nail care (September to October); dragon fruit production (October); dressmaking (November), and novelty items making (November). The provision of livelihood trainings to the tobacco-growing families, who are also cooperative members, is an attempt to provide solutions to food sufficiency, health and employment.
For the whole livelihood training course, NTA is targeting 1,320 beneficiaries for the 11 modules.
Dr. Gloria D. Tuazon and Joanna Marie Guarin of the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State Colleges, Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur, were the resource speakers on the meat processing course. Other technical experts will be tapped for the other training modules.
Facilitators during the training on meat processing were FTSD’s Felisa Aurellano, Francisca Sagsagat and Prescilla Nisperos.
According to NTA Administrator Edgardo D. Zaragoza, with this series of livelihood training courses, the NTA showed the farmers that the agency is serious in empowering them and their dependents. “We want them to participate dynamically in the improvement of economic and living conditions and raise the quality of life of their own families,” he said.
All the trainings will be conducted at the NTA AgriPinoy plant, except for the practicum for organic fertilizer production which will be in the farm site of the selected participants.
Cooperatives Training
FTSD will also start to train cooperative workers and leaders on basic accounting on July 2 and 3.
The training module, Accounting for Non-Accountants, is part of the CDA standard training modules aimed at enhancing productivity among cooperative members by exposing them to continuous cooperative education.
Some 50 cooperative members from eight NTA branches are expected to attend the training to be held at the Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives (NSCC) in Caoayan, Ilocos Sur.
According to FTSD Manager Luzveminda Truong, the program will help sustain the institutional fortitude of the coop members by enhancing and developing their skills and attitudes in different areas.
Other than basic accounting, coop leaders and workers will also be trained on Strategic Planning on August 5 and 6, and Cooperative standards prescribed by the CDA on November 11 and 12.
For the whole CDA training course, NTA is targeting 150 beneficiaries for the three modules. (with reports from Felisa Ramos Aurellano and Noralyn Idica)
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