Training-on-organic-fertilizer-tinaungan.pdf

NARRATIVE TRAINING COMPLETION REPORT Title of Training Course Venue Date Participants Course Description

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Training on Organic Fertilizer Making Tinaungan, President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat October 8-10, 2018 Rural Improvement Club-Tinaungan (RIC-Tinaungan) (See attached Training Design)

Course Output A 3-day Training on Making Organic Fertilizer was organized at Tinaungan, President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat from October 8 to 10, 2018. Members of the Rural Improvement Club (RIC) were the participants. The Sultan Kudarat State University (SKSU) conducted the training of the Department of Agrarian Reform – Italian Assistance to the Agrarian Reform Communities Development Support Program (DAR - IARCDSP) project under Agriculture and Enterprise Development Support (AEDS) Training Component. Day 1 The first day of the training started with the arrival and registration of the participants. This also involved the filling-out of the participants’ profile, giving out of training kits and other data needed. In the opening program, the Engr. Syria Usop, Development Coordinator from the Municipal Agrarian Reform Office, President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat, introduced and welcomed the participants as well as the resource speaker. The Resource Speaker, Dr. Marissa C. Hitalia, from SKSU-Lutayan Campus gave the rationale of the training, setting of learning objectives and leveling of expectations from the participants. The participants were divided into five (5) groups which also served as their groups during hands-on activities. During the leveling of expectations, majority of the participants expected to learn more about organic fertilizer which they could apply on their farms or small gardens at

[Above] Engr. Syria Usop, Development Coordinator, introduced and welcomed the participants. [Below] RIC President, Delia Parcon, shared her expectations of the training.

home. They also wanted to have an output or something to work with because most ofthe participants stays at home. A participatory discussion kicked off the training proper. It provided the participants general overview on organic farming, principles and concepts of organic farming, definition and benefits of organic farming. Day 2 Second day of the training resumed on the preparations and procedures. The Resource Speaker continued the training on the natural farm inputs in making organic fertilizer. She outlined the guidelines in selecting organic materials for the different concoctions and the procedures on how to make these fertilizers: Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ); Fermented Fruit Juice (FFJ); Oriental Hernal Nutrient (OHN); Vermicomposting; and Fish Amino Acid (FAA). Moreover, the uses, application rates, advantages, limitatuin and the production costs were presented to the participants. These lectures were complemented with video presenations of each procedure as well as interviews of farmers who opted to be organic in their farming systems. In this way, participants saw real people who succeed in this endeavor and helped them become stable and sustainable in thier farming activities.

Resource Speaker presented a video of the owner of Sunshine Chickens who used the concoction as natural antibiotic to chickens.

Before the end of the day, the Resource Speaker asked the participants to bring whatever available materials at their homes for the making of organic fertilizers like leaves, rice stalks, animal wastes specifically from goats, cows or carabaos and banana bracks. She also assigned the to groups which concoction they would make for the hands-on activity. Day 3 Hands-on activities were the culminating part of the training. They were already divided into four groups, one concoction for each group. While a group perfomed their task, the remaining participants watched in order to be familliar with the procedures.

Vermicomposting was done as a group. The participants were so eager in the process of making vermicompost and raising the worms. Many of the materials used in the activity were brought by the RIC members. Moreover, the Resource Speaker reminded the participants of the dates of harvest for the concoctions. During the closing program, the participants were happy that this kind of training happened in their barangay. One participant even noted that her family can even now use kitchen wastes to a better use. The participants cleaned and prepared the materials for the different concoctions.

Hon. Dimpna Lucero, the Barangay Captain of Tinaungan, challenged the participants to sustain and apply their experience and knowledge in their own homes. She also emphasized that these can become helpful on their farms and even to small gardens (vegetable and flower) which they had. She also wished that Tinaungan will be known as an organic community. Engr. Syria Usop thanked the eagerness of the RIC members and hoped that they would sustain the initiated training. She further also looked into the possibility that they will make their outputs as source of income for the organization. [Charlene P. Capillo, SKSU-Lutayan Campus]

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Annex D

Registration of the participants and the filing-out of profile forms.

Dr. Hitalia, the Resource Speaker, gave the overview of the training and what organic farming is all about.

Continuation of the lectures and groupings of the participants for the hands-on activities.

Materials for making different concoctions as organic fertilizer

The participants prepared the materials.

Addition of beer to OHN [below] and muscovado to FPJ [below]

The output of the participants. Each pail contained concoctions which they would harvest on dates indicated on the cover.

Materials for making vermicompost

Vermibed made from banana bracks

Particpants continued to add materials for the vermicompost

RIC members, participants of the training, with the Resource Speaker from SKSU (first on the left) and Development Coordinator from Municipal Agrarian Reform Office (seccond from the right) of President Quirino.

Annex F Post Training Evaluation Results Content Facilitator/ Resource Person 1. Knowledge of the Subject 2. Delivery skills

Rating 4.55 4.50 4.55

Interpretation Outstanding Outstanding Outstanding

Content 1. Usefulness of the lessons/information 2. Relevance of the lessons in relation to the project/activity of the PO/FO

4.57 4.71 4.57

Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory

Training Management 1. Pre- Training Preparation(Invitations and Instruction) 2. Overall workshop Flow 3. Materials and Handouts 4. Venue, Food and Facilities

4.25 4.14 4.43 4.14 4.29

Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory

Average

4.46

Very Satisfactory

Rating Scale

Numerical Scale 5 4 3 2 1

Ranges of Mean 4.21-5.00 3.41-4.20 2.61-3.40 1.81-2.60 1.00-1.80

Descriptive Rating Always Very Often Often Sometimes Never

Interpretation Outstanding Very Satisfactory Satisfactory Fair Poor

What did you learn most from this activity? a. Dugang ihibalo sa amon panginabuhi. [Additional knowledge to be used in life.] b. Ang paggawa sa mga organic fertilizer. [I learn about making organic fertilizer.] c. Marami kaming natutunan at ito ay magamit naming sa aming hanapbuhay tulad ng vermibed. [We learned a lot and we can used it in our livelihood like vermibed.] Is there additional topic you want to learn which is beyond this activity? a. Madamo pa gid. [More trainings like this.] b. Gusto pa namo makahibalo mag himo sa mashroom. [We want to learn on how to make mushroom.] Recommendations a. Gusto ko may ara pa nga sunod na training. [I want to have more trainings.] b. Training on Mushroom

Annex G Beneficiaries/Participants Profile

Annex H Pre-Test and Post Test Evaluation The participants answered a 15-item test for the pre and post test. Ther results are in the table below.

Participant

Pre-Test

Post Test

Batallones, Marilyn

6

10

Belaco-ol, Trinidad

5

9

Cabartes, Anselma

8

11

Canitan, Florita

3

10

Corneja, Leyne

4

8

Del Rosario, Lorna

6

Embate, Marilyn

5

8

Embate, Urbano

5

13

Ferrer, Michelle

10

Inot, Dominica

4

8

Lavilla, Rosemarie

6

7

Lopez, Shirley

6

8

Lucero, Dimpna Manzano, Virgilina

12 5

Parcon Rebecca

11 10

Parcon, Delia

4

11

Parcon, Rogelio

5

8

Pedroso, Bonna

10

Pillorato, Norma

10

Poblacion, Sianson

4

11

Rapista, Jedrol

4

9

Sosoter, Evelyn

6

*Note: Some of the participants were not able to answer either the pre or post test.