A Harvest Festival will be held June 1 at SM City Bacolod to cap the Kabalikat Sa Kabuhayan Farmers Training Program Part II of SM Foundation Inc.

The farmer-trainees, coming from various towns and cities in Negros Occidental, will be recognized during graduation rites at the mall for  completing the 100-day training sessions to improve their farming practices.

Their harvested produce from the Negros Economic Development Foundation Techno Farm in Brgy. Handumanan, Bacolod City will be showcased during the Harvest Festival.

The training sessions were conducted by the SM Foundation and NEDF with Harbest Agribusiness Corp. and the Department of Agriculture.

Topics discussed were site selection, land preparation, seed handling and seedling culture, crop management, fertilization, irrigation, pest and disease control, fruit selection, harvesting, post-harvest handling and marketing.

Harbest Agritech agricultural technicians handled the weekly  hands-on training on high-value, off-season, vegetable and fruit production at the NEDF Techno Farm.

The farmers were trained on improved and doable agricultural technology on commercial vegetable farming adapted from Taiwan. Since 1998, Harbest Agritech has been conducting the training program which has evolved into an SM Supermalls mall-wide project replicated by SM Pampanga and SM Lucena. Trainings will soon be organized in SM Baguio and SM Davao.*NLG

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