Encouraging millennials to pursue peace and sustainable development
Tabuk City, Kalinga - The pursuit and practice of agriculture and its allied professions is anchored on caring which is essential to the quest and attainment of most aspirations in the pursuit of peace and sustainable development.
The farmers are among the major players in the pursuit of agriculture. For centuries, they cared for the health, conservation, and protection of their land, crops, and livestock that nourished human beings and other life forms. Humanity and its civilization depended on agriculture and its products, more than on any other livelihood pursuit to survive.
As long as people eat food, has a need to live in peace, and sustain life, agriculture will stay as a primary livelihood. All that we must do, as humanity has been doing down the centuries is to continue doing it better.
The above advice was part of the message for the youth of the nation, delivered by Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR) Regional Executive Director, Narciso A. Edillo, MA. Ed, in Tabuk City, Kalinga Province.
RED Edillo was guest of honor and speaker during the 25th Foundation Day and 2nd Charter Day of the Kalinga State University here, held last January 29 to February 2, 2018 with the theme, “Engaging the Millennials in Attaining Peace and Sustainable Development.”
In his message, RED Edillo noted that 80 million of the present population of the nation are considered as the millennials, which include “university students, young professionals and a majority bulk of the corporate workforce.”
“This generation,” according to Edillo, “tend to “challenge convention” and with everything available at hand, have newer ways to do things. Full of dynamism and potential, “you can undertake projects to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all, with help from your elders and teachers,” Edillo told his listeners.
“You are hungry to learn, keen to excitement, believe in entrepreneurship and want to have an impact, then go into agriculture,” he challenged them.
Meanwhile, just before its 25 anniversary celebration, on January 26, 2018, KSU opened its agro-studies program for on-the-job-trainees to Israel. The program offers qualified seniors taking Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (BSA) to have their agriculture internship in Israel. Congratulating KSU for their initiative in repackaging and having the initiative to make their agriculture course more alluring, RED Edillo is optimistic that agriculture enrollees in KSU will surely increase.
Highlighting the present administration’s thrust toward food security on staple food commodities and high value crops to generate jobs and foreign earnings, RED Edillo especially expressed that it is essential that the millennials pursue agriculture as a lifetime profession.
RED Edillo is a member of the Board of Regents of KSU, as per R.A. 8292 on Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997, together with the Chairman of CHED, President of the University, and the regional directors of NEDA, DOST, DENR, DTI , and others.//
