The Farmers Training on Cake and Avocado Ice Cream Making activity facilitated by the College of Hospitality Management (CHM) finished on a high note as trainees tasted their cake and ice cream outputs. 

 Fourteen farmers from the Agricultural Extension Outreach Community (AEOC) Farmer’s Association and twenty from the Tagukon Farmers Association were trained by Central Philippines State University’s instructors in making food products.

 Held at CPSU Main Campus Mini Hotel last September 26-27, the training specifically featured Indigenous raw food materials like avocado to help farmers take advantage of fruit seasons where there is an abundance and even oversupply of food products.

 The CHM instructors, Mr. Raffy D. Gabayoyo and Mr. Roland A. Celis, assisted by CHM students, Wendell O. Castro, Reca M. Octavio, Rinalyn R. Delos Santos, Paolo Coronado, and Loraine Grace Genovia, trained the participants. “Facilitating training for farmers is not a challenge to us since our college has been active in organizing extension activities, specifically livelihood training, since 2019.

 The training we shared with our farmers is a research-based extension activity—product development. The College of Hospitality Management (CHM) community feels happy and proud that we are extending the learned skills and new product innovations to our farmers that could provide them with additional knowledge and skills to start their home-based business,” said CHM Dean Sheila A. Ignacio when asked about the challenges in facilitating livelihood training.

 The program objectives include the upskilling of local farmers, introducing value-adding to combat food waste, and providing entrepreneurial perspectives among participants.

 CPSU continuously aims to stimulate local economic growth through its extension services, where the university’s subject matter experts are given platforms to reach the local community, believing in the power of education in bringing genuine change.

 Alongside the CHM headed by Dean Ignacio, the Extension and Community Services Director, Dr. Jimmy O. Degillo, led the office in actively supporting the service given by the university to local farmers and local community members.

photos of Paolo J. Coronado