K- AgriNet goes to Bicol

Basud, Camarines Norte – The yellow bus of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region 4 is back on the road as it strode the streets of this town and its neighboring barangays on May 8.

The bus tour of Basud is part of the last leg of the K-AgriNet (Knowledge Networking Towards Enterprising Agricultural Communities) information caravan in Luzon, which will end in Donsol, Sorsogon, on May 12.

The farmers then took turns in boarding the bus and availed themselves of the orientation training on computers and the Internet.

As well, farmers were treated to a technology clinic on pineapple––Basud’s major commodity. The town is now on its third week of exporting its pineapples to South Korea.

Basud Mayor Silverio Quinones III welcomed the organizers of the caravan and the farmer-participants. Meanwhile, provincial agriculturist Rodolfo Salamero pledged their counterpart support to the K-AgriNet.

The town’s LGU hosted the event led by Ms. Trinidad Relloso, Basud Farmers’ Information and Technology Services Center manager.

Co-hosting the Bicol caravan is the Bicol Consortium for Agriculture and Resources Research and Development (BCARRD) led by its consortium director, Dr. Ninfa Pelea. BCARRD is PCARRD’s regional research and development network in Region 5.

The K-AgriNet Program aims to modernize Philippine agriculture with the use of information and communications technology in accessing information on modern and indigenous technologies.(Butch S. Pagcaliwagan, S&T Media Service)