Patag Organic Farmers Association

Barangay Patag is an ideal place for organic farming with its fine weather, clean air and water and, of course, diligent hard-working people.

It comes as no surprise that its Organic Farmers Association is now composed of 68 farmers from Sitio Tayap, Sitio Hiyang Hiyang and Patag proper.

The association recently had their general assembly and election of officers.

The new officers are as follows:

Chairman: RosarioVillarenia

Vice -chairman: 

Pepito Valiente

Secretary: 

Rona Palenghe

Treasurer: 

Rodelia Panganiban

Auditor: 

Lucy Palengje

PIO: 

1. HombertoOpeniano 

2. Marklyn Glavez 

3. Loida Lagundando 

4. Leonora Guillerio

Bus. Manager:

1. Julieta Belarmino

2. Jenilie Penequito 

3. Marites Agravante

Kabalikat Sa Kabuhayan Program Launched

SM Foundation Inc. and Harbest Agri Business Corporation recently launched the

Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan Vegetable Farmers Training Program in Brgy. Patag, Silay City

Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan is a corporate social responsibility program initiated and funded by the SM Foundation Inc. and jointly implemented  with the agricultural technology from Harbest and supported by the City Agriculture Office, DSWD - Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, LGU of Silay and farmers association. 

Trainings for the farmers will continue once a week at Barangay Patag until their graduation on April/May.

Thank you SM! And to all our organic farmers, work hard and God Bless! :)

Meet Nay Sario

Anyone who's a fan of the mountains of Brgy. Patag has definitely come to meet Nay Sario. 

A simple, gentle woman, Nay Sario looks just like any mother in Patag with a face that reflects a life well-lived and hands that bears the years of labor and struggle to feed a family of six.

Yes, you wouldn't look at her twice. That is until you've been informed that she is was the 2012 Farmer of the Year of the Province of Negros Occidental. That is before you knew that she was Western Visayas' Most Outstanding High-Value Commercial Crops Farmer BEST FARMER, awarded by Agriculture Executive Director Larry Nacionales.

Yes, you wouldn't look at her twice. That is until you've been inside her farm. A 2-hectare farm filled with lush leafy vegetables, trees whose branches bow to the ground due to the heaviness of the fruits they bear and shrubs that almost look manufactured because of the lushness of its colors.

To date, Mrs. Rosario Villarenia of remains a model for other farmers because of her pioneering work in integrated farming technology and organic farming.

She remains a model for us all, an example that hard work never remains unrewarded.