MANILA, Feb. 24 -- Taiwan's internship program for young Filipino farmers will open application for another batch in June, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Manila announced Saturday.

TECO said the applications received from the previous Filipino Young Farmer Internship Program in Taiwan (FYFIPT) are "currently under review."

The FYFIPT is a joint effort of TECO and the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in collaboration with the Philippine Agricultural Training Institute of the Department of Agriculture (DA-ATI) since 2021.

The program aims to empower young Filipino farmers to become farmer leaders and agricultural entrepreneurs by intensive exposures to unlearn, learn, and re-learn techniques, technologies, an...