It is the most innovative way of researching the problem using high school students as information providers; their schools in 108 areas as the nucleus of agricultural science, engaging their parents, their teachers, school officials, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, the Department of Agriculture Regional Offices III and XII, and the Tech-Voc Unit of the Department of Education as partners. Teachers are essential to the success of the Campaign and the strong support of the school principal and faculty is among the main strengths of its implementation. Consultative Group for the International Agricultural Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Cateel National Agricultural High School.
Ilocos Norte Agricultural College Ibona National Secondary School Libon Agro-Industrial Secondary School Leyte Agro-Industrial School Local Government Unit. Mapanas Agro-Industrial Secondary School Maria Aurora National Secondary School Marilog Secondary Agricultural School Mataragan National Agricultural School Malalag National Secondary School. San Jose National Agricultural and Industrial High School Samar National Pilot Opportunity School of Agriculture San Pascual National Agricultural High School.
The discussions in this section revolve around the launch of the Infomediar campaign, the issues it aims to address, a brief history of the campaign, and the main components and key activities of the campaign. This part discusses the birth of the Infomediary campaign, its overall concept up to and including the first national training program.
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The Infomediary Campaign is active in some of the most remote rice farming communities in the Philippines. The Infomediary Campaign website (www.infomediary4d.com) contains five videos from various national project sites about the results of the campaign. Students (infomediaries), teachers and farmers from the community gave their testimonies about the Campaign.
The results of the Infomediary campaign are discussed in more detail in the chapter on farming communities and the infomediaries. Manalo and Van De Fliert (2012) noted that young people in the Philippines are moving to cities to study. For example, in the Philippines, Castillo (1979) noted that young people were leaving rural areas for more lucrative opportunities in urban areas.
The graph below shows that the young people in the three pilot locations want to be indirectly involved (n=140). Youth initiatives in agriculture in the Philippines (data includes initiatives operational from 2003 to 2013) (Manalo et al. 2014a). These schools were Bayanihan National High School (BANHS) and Maria Aurora National High School (MANHS).
Nakaawat ti Siudad ti Tacurong iti Galing Pook Award, a mangbigbig iti kinasayaat iti lokal a panagturay iti Filipinas.
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It consists of five chapters that discuss the how-to's of the campaign in detail.
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Finally, the role of the infomediaries is validated by the people they were intended to help: the farmer parents and other farmers in the community. It is important that parents of the students and other farmers in the community are involved in the campaign. The campaign runs after the academic year of the Department of Education (DepEd), not the fiscal year of the host organization (PhilRice).
Members of the outreach team making the calls as part of the Campaign's monitoring activities. However, most rural areas have not yet been introduced to mobile phone GPS devices. Local partners most of the time send a volunteer to accompany you in the field.
Working in rural areas is one of the most fulfilling experiences in development work. Of MNHS's many achievements, the most significant is that it engaged five other schools to participate in the campaign. Strong support from the school principal and faculty is among the key strengths of the campaign implementation in MNHS.
She had a good understanding of the campaign in terms of what it seeks to do especially for the farmers in the school's surrounding community. The school principal's interest in the campaign and in agriculture is reflected in some of the school's facilities and surroundings. She collaborated with the ICF teacher so that the PinoyRice Offline version could be installed on the school computers.
Allan Tomas, an ICF teacher, has been actively posting school activity milestones on the campaign's Facebook group. Many of the strategies and activities implemented in the Infomediary campaign across the country came from this small high school in Maria Aurora, Aurora. Ideally, the lessons learned by partner teachers from the training component of the campaign should be incorporated into the crop production subjects they are teaching.
This is a productive use of the PinoyRice platform, which contains rich information about rice production in the Philippines. What are some of the lessons in doing development work that can be learned from the Infomediary campaign.
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In this last part of the book we want to show some results of the Infomediary Campaign, as well as some reflections on doing development work.
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The farmers asked the teachers of the students, sent an SMS to the PTC or asked the fellow students. The realization that free items aren't always appreciated is about using the offline version of PinoyRice. All participating teachers received offline CDs of the PinoyRice version that can be installed in the schools' computer labs.
It must be emphasized that ICTs are only tools and not the goal of the campaign. Small problems on the ground can have significant consequences for the implementation of the campaign (Manalo et al. 2014a; 2015a). Our experience is that we were able to resolve most disagreements during multilogues with the parties involved.
During the first national implementation of the Campaign, we noticed that there were many schools that were unable to implement it properly. The students preferred this timing of the fieldwork activities as they were not exposed to the scorching heat of the sun. During the campaign, we made several attempts to change the mindset of students towards agriculture.
According to our evaluation, promotion and study excursions had the greatest impact on changing students' minds about agriculture. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Scientific Conference of the Philippine Association of Crop Science Societies. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Scientific Conference of the Philippine Society of Plant Sciences, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines.
Paper presented at the 22nd Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines Conference, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Paper presented at the 42nd Crop Science Society of the Philippines Annual Scientific Conference, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. One of 10 outstanding papers at the Communication Policy Research (CPR) South 7/ ICTafrica 2012 in Mauritius (outstanding papers were published in the magazine info).
He graduated from the University of the Philippines Los Baños with a degree in Development Communication, majoring in Development Journalism. Saludez is a farmer and works as the campaign's in-house rice expert.
