30 Siargao farmers finish DAR’s farm biz school After many setbacks and challenges encountered because of the global emergency crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, farmer-members of Nuevo Campo Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative (NUCARBECO) have finally graduated from Farm Business School (FBS) in Barangay Nuevo Campo, San Benito town, this province. A total of 30 farmermembers of NUCARBECO have finally graduated from their Farm Business School (FBS) in a ceremony held recently in Barangay Nuevo Campo, San Benito town initiated by the provincial office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Surigao del Norte. The FBS is one of the agency’s Partnership Development Programs which started last March 10, 2021. The business school
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pushed through 25 learning sessions and meetings intermittently whilst taking every precautionary measure against COVID-19. During the graduation ceremony, the graduates received
|November 27-December 3, 2021
machetes (bolo) and harvest materials from DAR-Surigao del Norte. In his message, NUCARBECO chairperson Alejandro C. Balabala acknowledged the efforts the DAR Caraga INFOCUS