Agro Tech - ARDYIS Web 2.0 Training

The training is about the involvement of Youth in the Agriculture sector by using Web Tool. The training is sponsored by ARDYIS, CTA, and SPC. It cover a 5 day training and all participants have been participated in group, individual and debate activities which of course the participant were benefitted from the training very much

The training begins with an opening speech from the Fiji Secretary of Agriculture and welcome remarks from Dr. Ken of SPC, follow by introduction from the Regional Participants.

The training commence with the introduction to web 2.0 tool for development, (web2fordev), follow by the recognition of Pacific Youth in Agriculture Strategy. Few case studies were delivered concerning the involvement of youth in agriculture, how they become full organic farmers in Cicia Island in Fiji, How they use mobile phone reporting in Papua New Guinea, and how they manage their farming against climate change from participants from NGO’s

The other interesting part is when we touched Google Application. There are various interesting concepts of using Google Application. To my own extent, Google consists of many other gadgets in collaboration with other social media that can be of assistant in your research. There are storage device in Google where you can store you Google docs, edit it and share with your circles. The importance of the Google Calendar where you can update your plan and activities, and last but not least, the creating of your blog using your Google account.

By creating a blog there are few recommendation to make before finalizing your blog, and you also have to question yourself about:

·         Why creating a blog

·         How will you manage your blog

·         What will you blog

·         Who will be your audience

There are other questions to think about before creating your blog but these question will be the basic principal question to think of next time you want to create a blog. After a while, we create our blog concerning our own field of work. The blog I created was:

                                                Title                 –                      Agro Tech in Tuvalu

                                                Address           –                      tokiola.blogspot.com

NB:     1. Consider that the address must be kept in small letter and must be search in the

browser.

2. The title can be either small or capital letter but can be search in any search engine

After we create our blog, we integrate our blogs with other social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Because these social media are so well known, there are many group link created by competitive enterprise who advertise their product online these social media but have very interesting information about Agriculture in Rural Developments and Youth in the Information Stage. Therefore SPC by the way create as much link in these social media so that we can refer to it for useful information. From there, we linked our blog to these social media tool

On the last day we take a field trip to a basil and parsley farm off Nadi to observe how farmers maintain their crops. The owner of the farm assumed that he believes that in every property owned by Chinese, for a few years’ time, they will move on but the property that they leave will only be a waste land because they use very high percentage of fertilizer and pesticide to the land. No life can be sustain unless wait for a few more years for the land to recover the loss. The owner of the farm use 80% organic with only 20% fertilizer and pesticide according to my findings