THE Department of Agriculture’s Regional Field Office 1 (DA-RFO 1) has been training farmers and entrepreneurs in the Ilocos region on growing and processing soybeans, or utaw, whose importance as a leguminous crop has increased.

According to Melinda Calumpit, lead implementor of the “Enhancing Organic Soybean Production and Processing for Improved Local Supply and Utilization in Region 1” project in 2011, members of the People’s Rural Organization for Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development (Proseed), as well as farmers and investors from the region, participated in a training in Pangasinan province

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