CALAMBA CITY, Aug. 14 -- Scores of farmer-beneficiaries from Quezon and Batangas are now covered under the skills enhancement scholarship program, which was jointly forged through a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
Director Cleon Lester Chavez of DAR Public Assistance and Media Relations Service said the MOA recently signed by DAR Secretary John Castriciones and TESDA Secretary Isidro Lapena is aimed to provide farmer-beneficiaries and their dependents off-farm business skills to augment their family income.
Entrepreneurial courses in baking, dressmaking, coffee-making (barista), and automotive mechanic among the technical and vo...