YOUNG AGRI-ENTREPRENEUR PROMOTES NATURAL FARMING:

Warren Tan, a young entrepreneur, recently created a movement aimed at encouraging beginner farmers to engage in not only viable farming systems, but likewise sustainable and healthy practices. Tan, a successful ‘agripreneur’, has been into organic farming, growing fruits and vegetables, raising livestock and free-range chicken, producing natural fertilizer and livestock as well as healthy fruit and vegetable fermented juices. Forming the Securing Health and Environment Movement (SHEMOVES), Tan said he would like to see his fellow youth entrepreneurs venture into agribusiness that does not only deliver the bottomline income but is also conscious of the need to preserve harmony and balance in the environment and promote healthy living among Filipino consumers. Says Tan of SHEMOVES: ‘As a young agripreneur, I share the philosophy of others that in order to change the (prevailing) system, all of us must become the change that we want to see. I want to encourage my fellow young, aspiring farmers and/or entrepreneurs to join this movement, share my vision and thus become the new blood in the field of Philippine agriculture. By becoming agripreneurs, we play a positive role in the growth and development of the agriculture sector and, ultimately, the economy. We also educate people on the need to protect the earth from where all plants grow and our food come from. As youth, the future is in our hands. We have the time, opportunity and resources to transform not only ourselves but other people’s lives. With SHEMOVES, I want to prove that organic/natural farming can be rewarding and profitable.’ To know more about SHEMOVES seminar schedule or learn about organic/natural farming, you may call Avin or Maru at 227-0952/408-1308 Monday to Friday during office hours or text (0917) 997-6194/(0910)227-7722 anytime.