Author: Padayon UP

Generally, the objective of CDRA is to conduct a climate and disaster risk assessment of a local government unit (e.g., municipality/city). This consists of identifying the different hazards and hazard-prone areas in the municipality, conducting climate impact chain analysis, and generating an exposure map of each of the five exposure units— population, natural resources, urban use, critical point facilities, and lifeline utilities). It also involves evaluating the adaptive capacities of the municipality, the formulation of the disaster risk assessment matrix, the assessment of disaster risks by evaluating the likelihood of occurrence and severity of consequence, and the recommendation of appropriate measures for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

This involves the development and production of major publications such as technical bulletins, books, catalogues, training manuals, pamphlets and leaflets on postharvest developments and horticulture. It also involves the creation of PowerPoint presentations for trainings, invitations or requests by other agencies, and briefing materials for visitors program and other events. Posters and/or streamers for exhibits and similar events, as well as popular articles on postharvest developments for newsletters, newspapers and magazines are also produced for promotion purposes.

Good quality planting material is one of the main factors in increasing production. These planting materials should be accessible to farmers when needed and at cost affordable to farmers. This service aims to make readily available good quality planting materials to farmers at reasonable prices.

This environmental training program for the youth is regularly conducted among CHEs freshmen students, as well as with high school students of the province of Laguna. This training course is intended to enable the youth to become environmental leaders and stewards in their respective communities.

Organic agriculture is one of the specializations offered in senior high school under the Department of Education’s new K-12 program. This training started when the office was invited to send lecturers related to organic agriculture and native chicken production was one of the topics.

These seminars aim to serve as a venue for sharing of knowledge and experiences pertaining to teaching and learning processes and methodologies in both formal and non-formal setting.

The Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) has been developing high-quality crop varieties for the past 40 years. It has also developed technologies that best serve its clients. The IPB Extension Program was designed to make sure that these varieties and technologies reach their intended beneficiaries.

This is an on-farm replication of researches and techno-demo of mostly funded projects in partnership with farmer groups or communities. This was started during the early years of the station, was discontinued, and was revived in 2015. In principle, this engagement uses the facilities and resources of partner groups or communities, such as their area and labor force, to replicate studies and technology on a certain commodity (either crops or animals).

The extension arm of the College of Veterinary Medicine provides veterinary services to the surrounding communities and serves as laboratory for training of the junior and senior clinicians.

The general objective of this service is to update and/or develop the Ecological Profile of the client municipality. This involves conducting a resource inventory and environmental scanning to identify availability of required data and information, including GIS-based maps, and collecting the required data for ecological profiling. It also involves characterizing the situation of the municipality in terms of environment and natural resources, population and social services, local economy, physical infrastructures, and local institutional capabilities. At the end, an Ecological Profile report is prepared.