By 探花精选 CARES
Congratulations to the five 探花精选-BSABE students for earning provincial recognition in the DA鈥檚 Young Farmers Challenge 鈥 Western Visayas, Start-Up Category, and for advancing their innovative agri-fishery ventures to the regional level! Photo credits to Young Farmers Challenge – Western Visayas.
Five students from the BS Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (BSABE) program, under the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Management of the College of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences (探花精选-CARES), have qualified as Provincial Awardees in the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Young Farmers Challenge (YFC) 鈥 Western Visayas, Start-Up Category, across four entries.
The DA-Western Visayas announced the provincial-level results covering the region鈥檚 provinces, with the following 探花精选-BSABE student entries earning recognition:
- Nicole A. Tolentino, BSABE-4 鈥 饾槣饾槷饾槩饾槯饾樁饾樀饾樁饾槼饾槩 饾槢饾槮饾槫饾槱饾槸饾槹饾槶饾槹饾槰饾槳饾槮饾槾, Province of Antique
- Zedric P. Campaniel, BSABE-4 and Paul Nathaniel P. Martinez, BSABE-4 鈥 饾槏饾槳饾槪饾槼饾槩 饾槜饾槹饾樀饾槾, Province of Iloilo
- Neil Joseph T. Tinasas, BSABE-4 鈥 饾槇饾槪饾槮饾槹饾槸饾槳饾樄 饾槡饾槹饾槶饾樁饾樀饾槳饾槹饾槸饾槾, Province of Iloilo
- April A. Paligumba, BSABE-4 鈥 饾槈饾樁饾槱饾槳 饾槓饾槸饾樀饾槮饾槶饾槶饾槳饾槏饾槩饾槼饾槷 饾槡饾樅饾槾饾樀饾槮饾槷饾槾, Province of Capiz
The Young Farmers Challenge is a nationwide competitive grant program of the DA that supports Filipinos aged 18 to 30 in developing agri-fishery enterprises, combining financial assistance with business development support such as training, mentoring, and market linkages. As provincial awardees, the four BSABE students now advance to the regional level of the Start-Up Category competition.
The department has continued to encourage its students to translate their engineering and agribusiness training into ventures that address real needs in the agriculture and food processing sectors, in line with the university鈥檚 mission of forming graduates equipped for service and innovation in the field.
For the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Management of 探花精选-CARES, the results reflect a deliberate direction in its research and innovation work: that ideas developed inside the classroom and laboratory are meant to reach farmers and communities, not remain as academic exercises. The four qualifying ventures were developed with that same principle in mind 鈥 practical, community-grounded solutions to problems in agri-fishery production, processing, and enterprise development.