NAFC employees pose with locals of Ballesteros town in Cagayan for a group photo during their on-site validation of 2012 YFFTPJ nominee Rodrigo Alupani.
Fourteen officials and staff of the National Agricultural and Fishery Council (NAFC) conducted on-site validation/evaluation of the 19 nominees of the 2012 batch of the Young Filipino Farmers Training Program in Japan (YFFTPJ) from October 10 to 14, 2011.
These 19 individuals are exam passers in their respective regions and were carefully selected by the YFFTPJ National Selection Committee.
Said NAFC personnel visited the residences of the nominees in different areas in Regions II, IV, VI, VIII, IX, X, CAR and CARAGA.
The nominees were evaluated based on their farming experience, farm operation, trainings and regional examination results.
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| Together with local officials of Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, NAFC’s Stakeholders Extension Section OIC Solidad Bernardo pays a visit to YFFTPJ nominee Elias Calansi’s flower farm. |
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| 2012 YFFTPJ nominee Virgilio Ryan Sambo of Baggao, Cagayan proudly shows to the visiting NAFC evaluators some of the pigs he painstakingly raises. |
YFFTPJ is a program that NAFC, in collaboration with the Japan Agricultural Exchange Council (JAEC) and the Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, has been implementing since 1991 which aims to provide modern Japanese farming techniques to deserving young Filipino farmers who are out-of-school youth with age 20-26 years old.
It specifically seeks to provide technical knowledge and skills in agricultural and cooperative management; offer opportunities for an exchange of agricultural information of mutual interest among participants; and, provide opportunity for Filipino farmers to imbibe Japanese work values and attitudes.
After a 60-day Home Stay Training Module and a 75-day Pre-departure Orientation Course, selected young farmers will fly to Japan to undergo 11-month on-farm training under Japanese host farmers of the JAEC.
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