{"id":109034,"date":"2017-07-31T04:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109034"},"modified":"2017-07-31T04:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:08:43","slug":"da-urges-farmers-to-become-agripreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/31\/da-urges-farmers-to-become-agripreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"DA urges farmers to become agripreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109039\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mentor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109039\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mentor-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Agriculture (DA), in partnership with Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE)-Negosyo, has urged farmers in Davao Region to become agripreneurs through participation in a coaching and mentoring program for Agriculture, dubbed as Kapatid Agri Mentoring Program (KAMP) (PNA Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mentor-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mentor-768x266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mentor-1024x355.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mentor.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Agriculture (DA), in partnership with Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE)-Negosyo, has urged farmers in Davao Region to become agripreneurs through participation in a coaching and mentoring program for Agriculture, dubbed as Kapatid Agri Mentoring Program (KAMP) (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture (DA), in partnership with Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE)-Negosyo, has urged farmers in Davao Region to become agripreneurs through participation in a coaching and mentoring program for Agriculture, dubbed as Kapatid Agri Mentoring Program (KAMP) .<\/p>\n<p>GO-Negosyo, a pilot project of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), sealed its partnership with DA for this year\u2019s KAMP implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Kapatid Mentor Me is a 12-week coaching session for micro and small entrepreneurs. Mentees for the program will be selected from farmers\u2019 cooperatives by the respective officials of DA.<\/p>\n<p>DA 11 director Ricardo O\u00f1ate Jr. said the program is timely since there is a need for the farmers to embrace change and they will no longer be mere producers of raw materials but they can market their own products and improve their income as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we promote value chain and market-oriented agriculture, it&#8217;s time for our farmers to be transformed into agri-entrepreneurs,&#8221; O\u00f1ate adds.<\/p>\n<p>He said the mentorship program is an indication that the business success is not actually exclusive but more inclusive and once shared, more people can benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why mentoring is essential for them [farmers]. We need to improve their practices, teach them techniques and introduce them to agricultural technologies and instill in their minds on how to become successful agripreneurs,\u201d O\u00f1ate stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The launching of the program expects to match agri-enterprises with big companies and eventually upscales Agri micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture is one of the sectors that they want to equip and empower because as an agricultural country, it has all the resources and market for crops and other agri products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture (DA), in partnership with Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE)-Negosyo, has urged farmers in Davao Region to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,95],"tags":[1617,20121,20120],"class_list":["post-109034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-kapatid-agri-mentoring-program-kamp","tag-philippine-center-for-entrepreneurship-pce-negosyo","mauthors-cherry-mae-palicte","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}