| DTI TRAINING ON BASIC FOOD HANDLING, PROCESSING IN JAGNA |
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| Saturday, 30 May 2009 | |
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The Integrated Technology System and Support Amenities for Food Enterprises (ITS SAFE) center of the conducted training on basic food handling, hygiene and good manufacturing practices on May 25-26. This was successfully doe by the Bohol Food Safety (BFS) team. The intelligently well-organized seminar was held at the Capt. Goyo Caseas Hall. To give rise to the local industry here on food stuff commodities and help promote the said highly hygienic dietary product of the town that will also augment the producers’ meager earnings of the Local Government Unit (LGU) through Mayor Exuperio Lloren requested the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) to have this skills development training here. Some non-government organizations (NGOs) particularly the Jagna Council of Women (JCW) helped push though the said seminar. The DTI sponsored knowhow training was made into two separate sets of different subject areas. The 1st batch was on March 25-26 participated by the barangay Canjulao tableya (chocolate) and ubi ((yam) powder and other ubi-based product processors with 38 learners headed by Belinda Castroverde. The set that has just completed this week was on the processing of mais (corn) coffee with seven participants from barangay Cantagay, on the coconut virgin oil with seven serious adherents from barangay Kingbaan and on the nata de coco attended only by two from barangay Cabungaan. The group of facilitators, resource persons and support staff were from the Rural Health Unit (RHU) and the local Department of Agriculture (DA). Necie Torrejos of the Provincial Veterinary Office together with Regucivilla Pobar, an instructor of the Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Forestry and Technology (CVSCAFT) Tagbilaran City headed the think tank team. Following strictly the training design of the hectic work entanglement assignment the day to day schedule of activities included the expectation setting and training overview, topic discussion, activity portion, open forum, evaluation and finally the distribution of certification that marked the last part. (Gregorio A. Tavera) |
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