ATI offers seminars on landscaping, herb production

• Source:https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1024043
• Wednesday July 3, 2019

By Jimmyley E. Guzman (DA-ATI)

QUEZON CITY (PIA) – Agri enthusiasts here in the metro are up for exciting and free seminars. The Agricultural and Training Institute (ATI) is once again offering free seminars from July to December this year.

Starting July 12, ATI will offer free seminar on edible landscaping to be followed by herbs and prices production and processing on July 26.

On August 9, ATI will conduct seminar on moringa production and processing and cacao production and processing on August 23.

Participants will also be taught with the hydroponics method - a method of growing plants without soil by instead using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent on September 13. While fish production and processing will take place on September 27.

Herbs and spices production and processing will again take place on October 25. Also with edible landscaping on November 8, and mushroom production and processing on November 22.

Organic farming for newbies will cap this year’s free seminar which will take place on December 13, 2019.

Meanwhile, ATI will take product packaging and labeling at the FisherMall in Quezon City on October 16, 2019.

The seminars will be conducted at the ATI Central Office, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City. Session starts at 8:00AM to 5:00PM. Interested participants are advised to come early for the registration and for better seats.

Likewise, attendees are encouraged to bring clean, empty 1.5-liter plastic bottles which will be donated to the ATIng Gulayan ng DA garden.

For more information and inquiries, please call ATI at (02) 982-2474; 180-10-98222474 (for provincial toll-free calls); 0920-9462474 (for all networks); e-mail at ati_director@ati.da.gov.ph, ati_extension@yahoo.com; or visit ATI’s official Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/ATIngGulayanngDA/.