"We are honored to celebrate the small and big successes of farm school program education in this part of the country," said Roxas City Schools Division Superintendent Roel Bermejo.
He added that students enrolled under the farm school program are lucky as they will learn agri-fishery, forestry, community development and agricultural entrepreneurship in addition to the usual K to 12 curriculum.
The LIFS is one of the three farm schools in the province and among the 26 DepEd-run farm schools in the region which champion agricultural productivity and sufficiency.
Republic Act 10618 or An Act Establishing Rural Farm School as Alternative Delivery Mode of Secondary Education and DepEd Regional Memorandum No. 149 series of 2021 established the 14,037 square meters then Loctugan Integrated School into a farm school in 2021 for it to provide a contextualized career agricultural options to secondary level learners. (JBG/AAL/PIA Capiz)
