e-Learning for Agriculture and Fisheries

"Labanan ang Kahirapan, Isulong ang Karunungan"

The e-Learning for Agriculture and Fisheries is a major component of the Department of Agriculture's e-Extension Program, with the Agricultural Training Institute as the lead implementing agency, in collaboration with other government agencies, state universities and colleges and nongovernment organizations.

Welcome to i-ExEL.
This Beta site, the Interactive System for Agricultural Exchange and Electronic Learning , is especially designed for agricultural extension workers, enterprising farmers and fishers, teachers and retirees in the Philippines. We are offering online certificate courses on agricultural technologies and good practices of various commodities.

The e-Learning courses are delivered online and with a blended approach integrating field activities and face-to-face interaction between learners and experts. Learners will also have the opportunity to interact through online discussion forums and will have an access to a wide array of free digital resources to enhance their knowledge on the e-learning courses as well as other relevant agricultural information which will help in making the right decisions for their farms.

elearning The courses are developed in collaboration with subject matter specialists from the research and development institutions, state colleges and universities, and administered through the e-Learning Offices (ELO) located at the ATI Regional Training Centers and DOST-PCARRD's Farmers' Information Technology Service (FITS) Centers. Other services offered through this e-Learning Portal include mini-tutorials, experts’ knowledgebase and in the near future, you can order online IEC materials -- printed and VCD/DVD -- featured in this site for your personal reference.

Today's e-Lounge & Chat

Good news! The Text Support of the Farmers' Contact Center is now open to all networks.

Aside from Smart and Talk&Text subscribers, all non-Smart subscribers like Globe, Touch Mobile, Sun Cellular among others can now send in their queries on agriculture and fisheries technologies including concerns on this site through text messages to the Farmers' Contact Center.

For Smart and Talk&Text subscribers, just send your message to 391-DA (or 391-32).

For non-Smart subscribers, send your message to 0920-946AGRI (0920-9462474).

The Farmers' Contact Center is the alternative delivery channel for farm and business advisory services which caters to voice calls and text messages, aside from e-mails and other online communication such as instant messaging and online forum. Launched last November 28, 2009 in Tagbilaran, Bohol, this is a new service being implemented by the Department of Agriculture (DA) through the Agricultural Training Institute in collaboration with the partner institutions in the Department of Science and Technology, local government units, state colleges and universities and other stakeholders in agriculture and fisheries extension.

You also may contact the Farmers' Contact Center through the following hotline numbers:

Call: 982AGRI (982-2474) for Metro Manila or 1-800-10-982AGRI (or 1-800-10-982-2474) for provincial toll-free calls using PLDT landlines.

E-mail: info@e-extension.gov.ph

Updated: 17 February 2010

We are again pleased to inform you of another new online course available. This is Yummy Yum: Ubi Production. This is a beginner's course on yam or ubi production. Ubi is a common ingredient for confectioneries and desserts, including the popular halu-halo. Ubi is processed as jam and other local delicacies. It is commercially grown for ubi powder and flour. This course introduces you to the various varieties and how to grow them.

This online course is developed by ATI-RTC7 based in Bohol, the country's ubi capital.

We have new courses available!

We are pleased to announce our first offering of social technology courses. This is the online course on Basic Agricultural Marketing Extension. It is a 4-module course that covers the rudiments of agricultural marketing in an easy-to-digest material. Though it is designed with the the Agricultural Extension Worker in mind, it is definitely a good foundation course for anybody wishing to sell or assist in the marketing of farm produce. This course was developed by ATI-RTC1 with Aureo "Jun" Martinez as homegrown subject matter specialist. It is also the second online course from the Pangasinan-based ATI center.

We are also happy to announce the return of the online course on the Production of High Value Crops in Greenhouse. This is a revised edition of Greenhouse1. This new edition was also developed by ATI-RTC3. If you have already completed the previous version of this course, you can also access this version but there is no need for a new certificate. And as usual, to access the main course content, ask for an enrollment key but please add that you have already completed the old course.

At least three more courses will be online before the end of this month. Happy e-learning

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