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selected farmer-partners, data/information
collected were on household information,
animal systems and labor allocation, crop/foodfeed
systems, constraints to production, postharvest
practices, agricultural decision making,
among others.
Capability building
Technology trainings, cross visits/
lakbay-aral/field days, exhibit to existing
goat farms, training on entrepreneurial skills
development, participation in goat shows were
some of the project activities already conducted
to empower the project’s farmer-partners. The
formation of farmers’ association and activities
towards enterprise development will still be
done. The capability building strategy used
was patterned from the process adopted by
CASREN Philippines (2003). The mentioned
activities encouraged the farmer-partners to
adopt improved goat production systems and
other related technologies (Table 1) through
action learning strategies developed through
the ILRI-IFAD and CASREN projects (Alo,
2003; Venturina et al., 2003; CASREN, 2003).
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