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online isn’t just for students; it is also for the country’s aquaculture extension workers who l i stened to l ectures and practical sessions on milkfish and mangrove crab culture via an online platform.
Forty- eight participants, mostly staff of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ( BFAR) from the different administrative regions, recently completed t he FishKwela Training Course to enhance their s kill s on t he hatchery production of milkfish and mangrove crab.
The training course was the first technology and commodity- based online training course prepared by t he Southeast Asian Fisheries Development C e n t e r A q u a c u l t u r e Department ( SEAFDEC/ AQD) in collaboration with t he National Fisheries Research and Development Institute ( NFRDI).
Although SEAFDEC/ AQD has been conducting online courses on f i sh health management and aquaculture nutrition since 2002, Caryl Vincent Genzola, officer- i n- charge of i t s Training Section, said the
government hopes that retail spending in the last quarter of the year can boost the pandemic- hit economy, Malacañang said Thursday. “‘ months,
traditionally recent FishKwela training course “was designed to provide an in- depth, step- by-step look” on milkfish and mangrove crab culture.
The FishKwela online training course held i ts first session last Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, 2020 and its second session from Sept. 14 to 17.
With the training hosted o n Canvas e - l e a r ni ng platform, participants were given user accounts to access the content dashboard which hosts videos of lectures and practical demonstrations, specially created for the course.
The trainees were given guided vi deo t ours of SEAFDEC/ AQD’s integrated milkfish and broodstock hatchery complex, mangrove crab hatchery, and feed mill. Online discussion boards also allowed trainees to consult with t echnical experts, while online examinations measured the participants’ understanding of concepts.“The training was very good and i nformative. I also appreciate that it was recorded so I can repeat parts that I didn’t understand,” stated Norhata Dumasil, a participant from the Ministry retail so maximum opportunity
said Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
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he told reporters. The Philippines is forecast to see a 6.9 percent economic contraction this year, the a participant from BFAR Cordillera Administrative Region.
assured t hat FishKwela is just a preview of other online aquaculture training courses they intend to develop, in collaboration with BFAR and NFRDI. Plans World Bank said, the biggest since the 1980s and worse t han t he government’s projected 5.5 percent decline.
Its recovery has been constrained by an unrelenting first wave of infections since March, with more t han are also in place to convert other i n- person training courses to online courses t hat will cater t o both Filipino and international participants.
For the past 46 years, SEAFDEC/ AQD’s stations in the provinces of Iloilo, Guimaras and Rizal have hosted over 12,000 trainees 340,000 cases, l i miting its ability to fully reopen businesses, and restart domestic and international tourism.
The government recently reopened Boracay island t o t ourists f rom Metro f rom all over t he world who took part in hands- on training courses organized t o p r o m o t e h u m a n resource development in aquaculture.“S i nce t he t r a i nees cannot come here, we might as well bring the training to them via the internet,” said Genzola./ Manila and el s ewhere in the country. It will also urge l ocal governments to shorten curfew hours and will implement a “one-seat- apart” rule in public vehicles to increase their capacity. (