Overall Rating Reporter
Overall Score
Liaison Christine Ferrer
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Tarlac Agricultural University
PRE-2: Points of Distinction

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Complete Reporter
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Name of the institution’s featured sustainability program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Techno-Gabay Program.

A brief description of the institution’s featured program, initiative, or accomplishment:

The Tarlac Agricultural University (TAU) has been extending various community extension works for so long and the impact of these to the lives of the beneficiaries has been proven beneficial. Proof to this is the relentless embracement of many individuals and institutions to the extension programs of the University. One such service is the TechnoGabay Program (TGP) wherein TAU seizes the role of becoming a benefactor to several identified institutions and farmer groups to assist them in realizing their goals.
Initiated in 2000 by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and
Technology (DOST), the Techno Gabay Program (TGP) aimed to promote technology dissemination and utilization guides and facilitate knowledge sharing among extension workers and farmers. TGP is implemented by 14 consortia in the Philippines, with SUCs as partner member agencies (PMA). The University adopted the program in 2006, and after more than a decade and a half of advocacy in the province of Tarlac, the university’s TGP implementation through its extension arm, the Department of Extension and Training, is still going strong. For 2020, the TAU-DET partnered with the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center III in the enhancement of Farmers Information and Technology
Services (FITS) Centers in the municipalities of Sta. Ignacia and Bamban. Regular quarterly meetings of TGP team in the province of Tarlac were also conducted through virtual
platform to monitor and assess the present status of FITS Centers and Magsasaka Siyentista activities as well as to determine the training needs of FITS staff and MS, IEC needs
and equipment needs of FITS Centers.


Which of the following impact areas does the featured program, initiative, or accomplishment most closely relate to?:
Research
Public Engagement
Coordination & Planning

Website URL where more information about the accomplishment may be found:
STARS credit in which the featured program, initiative, or accomplishment is reported (if applicable):
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A photograph or document associated with the featured program, initiative, or accomplishment:
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Name of a second highlighted sustainability program/initiative/accomplishment:
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Website URL where more information about the second program/initiative/accomplishment may be found:
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STARS credit in which the second program/initiative/accomplishment is reported (if applicable):
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A photograph or document associated with the second program/initiative/accomplishment:
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Name of a third highlighted program/initiative/accomplishment:
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A brief description of the third program/initiative/accomplishment:
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Which impact areas does the third program/initiative/accomplishment most closely relate to?:
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Website URL where more information about the third program/initiative/accomplishment may be found:
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STARS credit in which the third program/initiative/accomplishment is reported (if applicable):
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