SLSU Hour and School-on-the-Air on Organic Vegetable Production

SLSU HOUR, SLSU’s weekly radio program broadcasting SLSU developments and activities on radio station DYSL 104.7 FM, is currently used to broadcast the School-on-the-Air (SOA) on Organic Vegetable Production. This is the second School-on-the-Air program to be aired following the success of the first SOA: the School-on-the-Air on Organic Agriculture which ran from June to October 2014.

Already, the current SOA has close to five hundred enrollees from the different towns of the Sogod Bay area. Key to the success of the School-on-the-Air has been the participation of the Municipal Agriculturists of the Sogod Bay municipalities in gathering enrollees for the program. The program is hosted by RDE Director Veronica Reoma and DYSL newsman Ramon Fernandez, and airs in the SLSU Hour time slot, 9 – 10 a.m. every Wednesday.

The lecturers of the program are Reoma, SLSU-Sogod Extension Unit Head Nestor Morales, SLSU-Bontoc Unit Head Noel Celeste and SLSU-Bontoc Department Head of Agricultural Sciences Evelyn Arceño. All four lecturers have backgrounds in Agriculture, with two of them having majored in soil science, and the other two in agronomy and agribusiness, separately. 

 

 

An August 5 episode of School-on-the-Air where Reoma scans meticulously written answers to an on-air exam given on July 29. Several enrolled students from the surrounding communities submitted their answers to the exam on Aug. 5 through the DYSL office.

 

The program covers topics on the production of an assortment of easy-to-make organic fertilizers and various natural strategies on pest control, and cultural management practices and techniques for growing specific vegetables.

The School-on-the-Air is funded by the Agricultural Training Institute – Region 8 of the Department of Agriculture. 

 

A farmer from Nahaong, Libagon makes a trip to the RDE office on July 14 to ask for a copy of the SOA module which the RDE office reproduced for distribution to interested learners. With farmer Roy Gozo is RDE Extension Head Nestor Morales.

 

 

An August 12 discussion on Vermicomposting with DYSL’ Ramon Fernandez and SLSU-Bontoc’s Noel Celeste and Evelyn Arceño. SLSU-Bontoc, which specializes in fisheries and second, in agriculture, invites SOA enrollees and interested groups to visit the SLSU-Bontoc Demo Farm, which is tailored for farmer-level learning. Interested groups may contact the SLSU-Bontoc Administration office (Tel. No:053-382-3121) or RDE-Sogod (Tel. No: 053-382-3264).

 

 

 

Sogod RDE Director Veronica Reoma with Federico Pol, the guard at the DYSL office, who receives exam answers and hands out SOA modules, enrollment forms and notebooks.

 

 

A live video broadcast over the Internet of the SOA program on August 26. The SOA program can be watched live through https://www.ustream.tv/channel/DYSL104-7FM.

 

 

A SOA poster hangs at SLSU’s covered path to invite more students and faculty to enroll in the program. The SOA on Organic Vegetable Production currently has over a hundred students who are enrolled in the program. 

 

 

Jorilyn Palomado (left) from the municipality of Tomas Oppus, visited RDE right after listening to the SOA program on July 22 in which it was announced that notebooks, modules and ballpens can be obtained from the RDE office. Dozens of notebooks and ballpens provided by the Agricultural Training Institute, were distributed to the Municipal Agriculturists of the Sogod Bay municipalities in the first week of June.

 

 

SLSU Hour

SLSU Hour took a robust turn in 2015 by peppering the air with live interviews on topics ranging from scholarships, enrollment procedures, student projects, board exam performances and extension plans. SLSU Hour which started in 2010, suffered a temporarily lull but was revived in August 2014. The program is hosted by RDE Director Veronica Reoma, DYSL anchor Ramon Fernandez and RDE assistant Lieza Malinao.

People who went live on-air in SLSU Hour include Guidance Counselor Nenita Flores, Criminology instructor Eleazar Labata, Supreme Student Council presidents Andrew Serapion and Wilson Jayagan, Industrial Technology Department Head Ramel Claros, Scholarship Coordinator Lourna Acaso, SLSU Vice President Cecilia Arong, OSAS Director Glenn Ampoloquio and Extension Unit Head Nestor Morales. Homer de Dios and Maria Fe Novere Amor of SLSU-Bontoc were also on-air to promote the programs of SLSU-Bontoc. Personalities who had live telephone interviews were GIS expert Alejandro Tongco and Computer Science Department Head Alex Bacalla.

SLSU Hour’s celebrated event include an on-air caller, a senior citizen - Tony Regis, who enrolled in SLSU-Sogod in June and gives credits to SLSU Hour for inspiring him to finish college.

 

Following the success of the Criminology Department’s high passing rates, Eleazar Labata of the Criminology Department becomes a guest in May 2015 to give listeners a picture of the Criminology life, and work opportunities in Criminology.

 

 

SLSU’s Glee Club, gave an on-air rendition of the SLSU Hymn on March 4. The group sang a few more songs at the DYSL office after it won over DYSL Station Manager Dindo Alaras (at left, in green) with their rendition of a few Cebuano religious hymns. 

 

Sixty-three-year-old Tony Regis, who enrolled in SLSU-Sogod in June, gives credits to SLSU Hour for inspiring him to finish college. This photo, taken in late May, shows Regis seeking the SLSU Hour hosts at the RDE office, both to discuss his plans of going back to college and to seek for scholarship sources. 

 

 

DYSL’s Ramon Fernandez and Homer de Dios of SLSU-Bontoc campus in promoting Bontoc’s banner program in fisheries.

 

 

An interview with Office of Student Affairs and Services Director Glenn Ampoloquio in late May.