The People’s Agricultural Plan for the 21st Century Inc., or PAP 21, will conduct training on agro-forestry for about 40 farmers from its various partner-communities today and tomorrow at the PAP 21 Farm in Mansilingan, Bacolod City, a press release from the group said. 

It aims to provide PAP 21 partner-communities with basic orientation on organic agriculture and discuss the importance of agro-forestry in preserving the over-all ecosystem and the need to defend the province’s remaining forest frontier against the onslaught of development aggression.

Resource speakers are from various environmental non-government organizations and institutions.

The PAP 21 press release said the training is part of the project aimed to enhance the farmers’ control over seeds through the use of indigenous, innovative and community-based seed reproduction, seed storing and seed exchange system.

The project is made possible through a grant from Cottonwood Foundation, USA which assists NGOs and civil society groups in the Third World countries like PAP 21, the press release said.

Cottonwood Foundation and PAP 21 have been partners in implementing projects for poor and marginalized farmers in Negros Occidental since 2004, it added.*

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