DA-10 streamlines info officers thru Basic Video Editing Skills Training

Cagayan de Oro City – IN its drive to capacitate information officers within the department and its umbrella agencies as well as its partners from the provincial local government units (PLGUs), the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 10 (DA-10) will spearhead a Basic Video Editing Skills Training on June 21, 2012 at De Luxe Hotel of this city.

The said training intends to develop more the video editing skills among the designated information officers of various offices as they serve as the frontliners in enlightening the government’s programs, projects and interventions to its targeted beneficiaries thru the packaging of success stories and other related information-education communication (IEC) materials.

According to DA-10 OIC-Regional Information Officer Mary Grace B. Sta. Elena, the training would be an avenue for the attendees to have a thorough hands-on on the fundamentals of video editing. She added that despite the long-day course, participants would later on have the knack on compiling and altering different original video sources into an organized, rational and visually pleasing output.

As the agency is likewise intent to sustain initiatives that would deliver considerable support to agricultural stakeholders, a meeting will also be simultaneously held to apprise the DA information officers and its attached bureaus and agencies, including the PLGUs on additional key activities to be undertaken for the year 2012 at the same time to convey updates of pipelined activities or events among the various offices.

Expected trainees that would be mustered by the said enhancement skills training are representatives from the PLGUs of the five provinces within Northern Mindanao, Fiber Industry Development Authority, National Irrigation Administration, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Philippine Crops Insurance, Corp., Philippine Coconut Authority, National Dairy Authority, National Meat Inspection Service, Agricultural Training Institute and National Food Authority. (Joanne L. Olson, DA-10)