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| Johnny Concon, DA Caraga GAP focal person talks about GAP certification |
The sure ticket for Filipino farmers to seize the
opportunities on the ASEAN market is through Good Agricultural Practices (GAP).
Supervising Agriculturist Isabelita Ocampo of the
Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) of Department of
Agriculture Caraga said that quality is the name of the game on ASEAN market.
“If your product is not GAP certified you can’t access
the ASEAN market”, she said.
GAP is the common parameter for ASEAN products wherein
member countries can market their products as long as it conform the standards.
To broaden the understanding of Caraga vegetables farmers
on GAP, DA Caraga conducted a training-seminar on GAP recently.
The training was participated by farmers, students,
consumers and traders.
GAP focal person Johnny Concon emphasized the
importance of following the GAP standards as it ensures safe and quality food
products.
GAP approach aims at applying available knowledge to
addressing environmental, economic and social sustainability dimensions for
on-farm production and post-production processes, resulting in safe and quality
food and non-food agricultural products.
To encourage Caraga farmers to be GAP certified, Concon
said that DA Caraga will assist those interested.
“GAP certification is free and DA Caraga is ready to
assist the farmers”, Concon said.
The certification is open for individual, associations
or cooperative with basic requirements such as GAP training certificate, farm
map and location and farming practices records. (Aurelius P. Arais/DA Caraga)
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