The Department of Education Schools Division of Antique is set to build a farm school in San Remigio town.

The project aims to support the regional farm school curriculum of the department.

“We are now in the process of working to make the Aningalan Elementary School become an integrated school so that the secondary students enrolled could be taught the farm school curriculum,” Dr. Gaudencio Reigo, Antique chief of the curriculum implementation, said.

He said they chose the public school in Aningalan to be the site for the farm school because of its potential as an agri-tourism area.

“The students will be taught how to plant strawberries and other high-value crops as part of the curriculum. The strawberries and other high-value crops such as lettuce are growing abundantly in the barangay due to cold weather,” Remigio said.

He said that students will also be taught how to market the crops.

“The students, aside from being taught how to plant the strawberries and other high values crops, will also learn the concept of entrepreneurship,” Reigo said.

“The school will serve as a site for immersion of other students and tourists interested to learn about agriculture. We hope to implement the farm school curriculum by the next school year,” he added.

San Remigio Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. is optimistic that the new curriculum could help the students.

“The LGU will initially be establishing makeshift classrooms needed by the Aningalan Elementary School to become an integrated school by next school year,” he said.