DA Caraga promotes ‘buy local, eat local

a nine-module online lecture and workshop from September 29 to November 9, 2020. These topics include design awareness and appreciation, product design and development, upcycling design, fashion accessories and fashion compliments design, packaging and labeling, design material development and exploration, basic furniture design, and visual merchandising. The program will conclude with a product showcase from 120 participants in the entire country. “We are glad that we have this opportunity to assist emerging local designers in the region in coming up with their own portfolios and eventually establish their own design studios,” DTI Caraga OIC Regional Director Gay A. Tidalgo. Tidalgo added that the program will make the participants a part of the pool of designers that the Department will be working within its product development sessions. “The OTOP Manlilikha is a platform that helps us, young designers, to be the best version of ourselves. It allowed us to explore discovered the rich cultural heritage of our country,” said Stephen Azarcon. (DTI-Caraga/ PIA-Caraga)

The national government, financial support, and through the Department of marketing assistance Agriculture, together with was given for free to its concerned attached help the valued farmers agencies and bureaus to become prosperous had extended its all-out and resilient partners in support to farmers and fishers nationwide, from planting to harvesting and marketing. Provision of farm inputs such as seeds and fertilizers, pre and development. DA Caraga continues to support the farmers and encourages everyone to patronize and promote the post-harvest facilities, consumption of locally technical assistance, grown rice to help raise equitable and affordable the plight of the farmers. Aside from helping the local farmers and their families, buying local rice will also help the farming community and the economy. Per monitoring conducted by the Grains Monitoring Team (GMT), as of September 2020, most of the rice being sold in the market is locally produced and less of imported rice. (DARFO XIII, RAFIS)