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.
This service aims to provide technical assistance on the formulation of the municipal/city and barangay DRRM plan. The DSDS already completed training on participatory community vulnerability assessment (PCVA) and DRRM plan with the Municipalities of Calauan and Famy in 2011 and 2013, respectively.
In partnership with the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD), this endeavor seeks to formulate an ECAN Resource Management Plan for client municipalities. This involves the conduct of a comprehensive profiling of the municipality, and the identification and analysis of existing and potential threats and opportunities present in the municipality. It seeks to recommend sustainable programs and projects for the management of ECAN zones in the municipality.
