Mang Danny’s Organic and Natural Farm is accredited by the ATI as a learning site for agriculture and is a venue for people who want to be fish farmers. The business school was a collaboration between the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), Senator Cynthia Villar, and the Philippine government.ĭionisio saw potential in his farm, and developed it to be a fishing area friendly to visitors in September 2022. He first learned about opening the farm as an attraction at a farm business school he attended. “So to eliminate that, I thought why not open to the public?” “To harvest the fish, I had to hire five people, get a motor to pump the water, pay for gas, then bring the fish to the market,” he said. However, it wasn’t enough to maintain the farm. Dionisio only had to bring the fish there, and after a few hours, he was given the cash equivalent to its value. A family friendly fish farmīringing the fish to the fishport was simple. He used to bring his fish to the fishport to sell, but has stopped ever since he opened his farm to the public. The crops he grows are mainly for his family and nearby community. (Danny Dionisio)Īlthough Dionisio said “sell,” he doesn’t bring his crops and animal products to the market. Dionisio doesn’t use commercial feed and instead grows azolla to feed his fish.
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