Wednesday, February 6, 2008

BUKHAY 1 Manual

A manual which captures the actual operations and integrated farming systems of the Center for Rural Technology Development (CRTD) in Calauan, Laguna, PBSP’s laboratory for testing, validating and disseminating appropriate farming technologies. Through this book, PBSP hopes to increase farm productivity and better incomes among farmers in the face of globalization and the challenges confronting the agricultural sector.

SAPAT 2000 Manual


A documentation of the smallest farming system in CRTD, SAPAT 2000 is a manual on the tilapia-based farming system which demonstrates farming as a lucrative economic activity. Because of CRTD’s vision to transfer appropriate technologies to farmers, this manual is produced. Included herein are the process, systems, and projects in the SAPAT farming system Etym: A Tagalog term for “sufficient” and stands for Sama-samang Pagsasaka at Angkop na Teknolohiya. (Agriculture and Appropriate Farming Technologies).
(SAPAT 2000 and BUKHAY Manuals are available at CRTD Office, Brgy San Isidro, Calauan Laguna)