AsiaDHRRA and the Philippines’s Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) met via Zoom conference to collaborate on AsiaDHRRA’s digital agriculture project – Smallholder Economic Empowerment through Digital Solutions (SEEDS) on 11 April 2024. The department’s Undersecretary, Ms. Jocelle Batapa Sigue has joined the regional Project Advisory Group (PAG) and will provide strategic guidance to the project with her significant roles in the regional and global digital/ICT/IoT.
SEEDS aims to scale up the economic undertakings of farmers’ organizations and agri-cooperatives in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Vietnam through digital and ICT solutions and interventions. The project is funded by the Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) through IFAD.
