The DAE’s extension function is highlighted by its offering of short-term training programs, which are in line with the university’s and national government’s programs. These training programs include:

• Agricultural Policy Analysis

Process and dynamics of Philippine policy formulation
Policy issues in Philippine agriculture
Macroeconomic framework for policy analysis
Input and output policies
Credit policies

Duration: 2-4 weeks

• Training Program on Price and Marketing Policy

Basic Concepts
Agricultural incentives/disin-centives effects on production, consumption and prices
Analytical tools
Trade marketing and price policies
Input price policies
Export taxes and import restrictions
Marketing boards and cooperative marketing
Other national commodity interaction measure relevant to price and marketing policy
Impact of macroeconomic and trade policy measures relevant to price and marketing policy

Duration: 2-4 weeks

• Market Development for Agricultural Products

Overview of agricultural marketing
Marketing institutions and channels of distribution
Marketing efficiency
Market improvement and development

Duration: 1-2 weeks

• Food and Price Policy

Overview of agricultural marketing
Marketing institutions and channels of distribution
Marketing efficiency
Market improvement and development

Duration: 1-2 weeks

• Agricultural Project Analysis

Project concept and project cycle
Technical aspect
Market aspect
Organization/managerial aspect
Financial aspect
Economics/social and environmental aspects

Duration: 2-4 weeks

• Economics of Livestock Production and Livestock Projects

Introduction to livestock production experiments and field trial methods
Basic economic concepts relevant to livestock production and marketing
Statistical considerations in livestock experimentation
Economic pre-screening of livestock technologies
Farm management principles applied to livestock production
Livestock project analysis
Policy, institutional and marketing considerations in livestock research

Duration: 2-3 weeks

• Irrigation Water Management

Planning for irrigation development
Irrigation and drainage systems design
Farm management analysis in pump-irrigated areas
Appraisal of tubewell projects
Monitoring and evaluation of tubewell projects

Duration: 2-4 weeks

• Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Definition and need for project monitoring and evaluation
Types of project monitoring and evaluation systems (PMES)
Function of the PMES
Administrative module on PMES
Indicators for monitoring and evaluation
Sources of data and methods of data collection for PME
Methods of data analysis

• Research Methodologies in Agricultural Economics

Concept and application of costs and returns for economic analysis
Concept and application of partial budgeting/marginal analysis for economic analysis of experimental and farmers’ data
Methodologies for assessing socio-economic impact of technology
Conducting feasibility studies for investment project

• Project Feasibility Preparation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects

Project cycle and identification
Parts of a project feasibility study
Financial analysis
Designing a monitoring and evaluation system (MES)
Indicators for monitoring and evaluation
Methods of data analysis
Management information system

• Feasibility Study Preparation

Scope and nature of project analysis
Project cycle and aspects of project preparation
Farm management tools in project analysis
Technical aspect
Market aspect
Financial analysis
Economic analysis
Computer application in feasibility study preparation

• Microcomputer Applications on Database Management of Agricultural Economics Data

Fundamental concepts of programming
Overview of the microcomputer system
Microcomputer devices and functions
Data management and organization
Micro softwares and their use in agricultural situation

Duration: 2-3 weeks

• Market Information System

Overview of agricultural marketing and MIS
Characteristics of agriculture and participation in agricultural production and marketing
Market analysis
Operations of MIS
Coordinating and integrating mechanism

Group report

Duration: 2-4 weeks

• Aquaculture Economics

Economic rent calculation
Maximum sustainable yield vs. maximum economic yield
Economics of fishpond/fishcage culture
Optimal input use in aquaculture production
Common property and aquaculture development

Duration: 2-3 weeks

• Valuation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics

Role of economics in valuing environmental effects of development projects
Market-based methods
Contingent market methods
Surrogate market methods

Duration: 2-3 weeks

• Rapid Rural Appraisal

Role of RRA in farming system approach
Models of RRA
Steps in conducting RRA
Actual conduct of RRA in selected communities

Duration: 2-4 weeks

• Food and Nutrition Economics

Food production, con- sumption and nutrition situation
Food policies and nutrition
Agricultural marketing and distribution
Analysis and planning of food and nutrition projects
Food balance sheet

Duration: 2-3 weeks

• Resource and Environmental Policy and Management

Fundamentals of resource and environmental economics
Optimal environmental damage
Environmental and resource management policy instruments
Global environmental issues
Policy process and analysis

Duration: 2-3 weeks

Aside from this, faculty members serve in the Pahinungod Program of the University, which sends volunteers to farflung areas in the country to render free technical services to those who are in need.

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