Tacloban City (January 20) -- With the aim of updating agricultural development workers on the latest abaca technologies and in dealing with the problems on abaca, the Abaca Disease Management and Rehabilitation Team (ADMART), spearheaded a training on Abaca-Production and Pest Management at the Training Hall of the Leyte State University based Agricultural Training Institute.
The training was participated in by 22 agricultural technologists and municipal agriculture officers from Leyte, Southern Leyte and Ormoc City.
Among the topics discussed is were the abaca diseases management and industry development ordinance of the Province of Leyte and its implementing rules and regulations, which may serve as a sample or reference by the other provinces. Other topics were quarantine regulations, abaca situationer, varietal identification, abaca production and management, disease indexing and care and management of tissue cultured plantlets, abaca diseases and their control, postharvest technologies and grading and classification of fiber. The participants were also exposed to demonstrations on eradication of abaca bunchy top and handling pesticides, tuxying and shipping, and yarning, twining and twisting and combing. The Abaca Disease Management and Rehabilitation Team or ADMART is a conglomeration of various offices which includes the Provincial Government of Leyte, the Leyte Fifth Congressional District, the Fiber Development Authority, the Agricultural Training Institute, NARC and the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Plant Quarantine. ADMART main thrust is to monitor, map out strategies and actions, formulate policies, and provide technical assistance to eradicate abaca diseases in Leyte. (PIA 8)
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