1-DAY NATURAL FARMING SEMINAR WORKSHOP BY MFI

A 1-day natural farming seminar workshop will be held on Saturday, June 18^th from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at the MFI Farm Business Institute (MFI FBI) campus in Barangay Punta in Jala-jala, Rizal. Registration fee is P500.

The seminar will introduce natural farming practices with high productivity, high profitability, and low labor requirements. Natural farming has minimal negative impact on the environment and uses cheap, readily available ingredients and indigenous microbes.

For more information, contact MFI-FBI at local 632 0756 to 67 local 251,   631-2444, or email fbi@mfi.org.ph.

Show that farming is profitable and sustainable

In the Philippine Agriculture, farmers have relied on subsistence farming, land reform was implemented without the necessary assistance to the farmers on modern technology credit and access to internet,  agricultural education have failed to teach farmers how to be profitable and agriculture as a profession has lost its appeal; especially among the youth.

            To help remedy the situation and help in a way, MFI Farm Business Institute in Jala-jala, Rizal would like to change the mindset, to change the way future entrepreneurs are taught in agriculture to show that farming is profitable and sustainable.

            It would like to teach farmers that right skills ₊ right knowledge = agri-entrepreneurs. It also would like to develop a vibrant agro-industrial sector in the countryside by integrating rural enterprises development in its educational program.

Molding Future Innovators, MFI Technological Institute (formerly Meralco Foundation Institute) focus is on agriculture because it believes that increase in agricultural output can contribute a great deal to cheaper food that would benefit the urban and rural poor, increase farmers’ income and generate employment opportunities.

            It encourages agribusiness because agribusiness is the chain that brings food to the plate and that in the study Project Jobs Fit 2010: The DOLE 2020 Vision of the Department of Labor and Employment, the agribusiness sector is seen as a key job-provider for Filipinos in the next  ten (10) years.

            In the press conference conducted at the MFI Bldg. in Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City with Col. Alejandro Teves Escano, president of MFI Foundation  Inc. and Jose Rene C. Gayo, Corporate Secretary and Vice President for MFI Farm Business Institute  in Jala-jala, Rizal, on June 12, the two were glad to say that MFI Farm Business Institute teaches and gives emphasis to organic farming and produces their own organic fertilizer and uses the  ANICA Organic Pesticide produced in Cebu City.

            Today, MFI continues to serve through the MFI Technological Institute and MFI Farm Business Institute, two institutions that differ in nature, yet are two arms extended by MFI to build a stronger nation. Ester Gallardo, PSciJourn MegaManila

MFI Scholars’ Day

Molding Future Innovators, MFI Technological Institute, formerly Meralco Foundation Institute will honor 568 students during its 29^th Scholars’ Day on June 24, 2011 at the MFI Gym at MFI Bldg., Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City.

            Of the 564 students who passed the requirements at the MFI Technological Institute, 245 passed for the 1^st year in the Industrial Program (TIP) and Information Technology (IT); 179 for 2^nd year and 202 for the 3^rd year.

            Coinciding with the MFI Scholars’ Day is the school’s recognition day to students who excelled during the last school year, to whom medals will be awarded.

            At 2:00 P.M. after the celebration of the holy mass the awarding of medals to honor students will follow.

             MFI students spend several months of in-plant training or hands-on training from the institute to the real workplace in accordance with the requirements of the industry to allow students to acquire accurate knowledge of what is expected of them on the job.

            In doing so, MFI students, aside from the usual knowledge and skills learned from the institute, developed adaptability in various working conditions, that helps them become more productive.

            As a result, as experienced by the institute, MFI scholars usually get employed even before they graduate.

            The courses offered include electrical, electronic and instrumentation technologies, IT (computer studies), 2-year DTS (Dual Training System).

                   The three-year scholarship grant qualifies the student for free tuition, free books, laboratory materials, uniforms, calculators and supplies.

            MFI Foundation, Inc. was established in November 6, 1973 under the name MERALCO Foundation, Inc. and was registered as a granting foundation with the National Development Board in 1975. MFI partnership with Rizal Technological College (RTC) and the sponsoring of the scholars in the said schools as MFI scholars was among the MFI acts of service. It also grants scholarship to students pursuing non-degree industrial courses at Manila Technical Institute and Don Bosco Institute.

            In 1983, MFI evolved into an operating foundation from a granting foundation. Through its various centers, specializing in specific areas of manpower development,  it reached out to a greater number of beneficiaries all over the country.

            In the same year, one of its centers, the Meralco Foundation Institute, now the MFI Technological Institute was established. MFI around the same year established projects in Jala-jala, Rizal, dedicated to develop and promote low-cost practical  and viable agriculture  and agriculture technologies.

            In 1992, MFI became completely independent from Meralco and the government. It ceased to be a holding company and became a private science foundation.

            Today MFI continues to serve through the MFI Technological Institute and the MFI Farm Business Institute. These two institution, though different in nature, are two arms the   organization is extending to build a stronger nation. Ester Gallardo, PSciJourn MegaManila