The DA-BAFS Organic Agriculture Division, together with the DA-RFO Organic Agriculture Program and Regulatory Division, conducted a supervised certification to the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) group in Sto. Niño, Cotabato from December 2 to 6, 2024.The activity aimed to provide technical assistance to the accredited PGS group, ensuring that their organic certification process—covering receiving and processing a farmer member’s application for certification, preparing for peer review, conducting the peer review, evaluating peer review findings, formulating and endorsing certification decisions, to finally issuing the Participatory Organic Certificate—is conducted in full compliance with the group’s Manual of Operations (MOO).The activity highlighted the supervised peer review, which is intended to guide the peer reviewers in verifying the compliance of applicant farmer members with the PGS group’s Internal Standards (IS). #OAtechnicalassistance#PGSforOA#OrganicAgriculture#BAFSonthemove#DABAFS  Inspection Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Group Farmer – Members Province of Cotabato December 19, 2024 Supervised Certification of Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Group in South Cotabato December 12, 2024 Field Compliance Assessment of Ongoing Efficacy Trials in Davao del Norte December 12, 2024 DA-BAFS Monitoring Team conducted monitoring activities to two of the DA-BAFS registered organic soil amendment producers in Davao City December 12, 2024 Assessment to a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Group (Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur) December 12, 2024 Oath Taking Ceremony of DA-BAFS Newly Appointed Employees for FY 2024 December 6, 2024 ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Surveillance Audit December 6, 2024 Validation Workshop with the DA-Food Safety Regulatory Agencies (FSRAs) for the Study “Baseline Assessment on the Use and Impact of Philippines national Standards (PNS)” December 4, 2024 1 2 3 4 5

A field compliance assessment (FCA) was conducted to ongoing efficacy trials (EUPs) on November 21, 2024, in New Visayas and Bobongon, Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte. The DA-BAFS assessment team conducted the FCA to verify the continued compliance of the ongoing efficacy trials with the approved EUP.The efficacy trial is conducted to assess the efficacy of the product against flower thrips of Cavendish Banana. During the activity, the application of treatments was done through bud injection. Flower trips were also observed in the dissected sample buds; however the pest is too minute to be captured in photos.The conduct of efficacy trials through an EUP is a prerequisite for the registration of Organic Bio-control Agents (OBCA) products.  #DABAFS #BAFSonthemove#OAregistration#OAassessment#OrganicAgriculture Field Compliance Assessment of Ongoing Efficacy Trials in Davao del Norte January 2, 2025 DA-BAFS Monitoring Team conducted monitoring activities to two of the DA-BAFS registered organic soil amendment producers in Davao City December 19, 2024 Assessment to a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Group (Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur) December 12, 2024 Oath Taking Ceremony of DA-BAFS Newly Appointed Employees for FY 2024 December 6, 2024 ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Surveillance Audit December 6, 2024 Validation Workshop with the DA-Food Safety Regulatory Agencies (FSRAs) for the Study “Baseline Assessment on the Use and Impact of Philippines national Standards (PNS)” December 4, 2024 Oral Presentation of “BIOSTIMULANTS GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES” at the SAIN 4 SHGBEE3 (Siem Reap, Cambodia) November 22, 2024 DA-BAFS Support to the Celebration of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) November 22, 2024 1 2 3 4 5

The DA-BAFS Monitoring Team conducted monitoring activities to two of the DA-BAFS registered organic soil amendment producers and its products located in Davao City on November 19, 2024.The monitoring activity is conducted annually to verify the continued compliance of a BAFS-registered organic input producer to applicable technical regulations relevant to organic agriculture.#OAmonitoring#OAregistration#DABAFS#BAFSonthemove DA-BAFS Monitoring Team conducted monitoring activities to two of the DA-BAFS registered organic soil amendment producers in Davao City December 19, 2024 Assessment to a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Group (Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur) December 12, 2024 Oath Taking Ceremony of DA-BAFS Newly Appointed Employees for FY 2024 December 6, 2024 ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Surveillance Audit December 6, 2024 Validation Workshop with the DA-Food Safety Regulatory Agencies (FSRAs) for the Study “Baseline Assessment on the Use and Impact of Philippines national Standards (PNS)” December 4, 2024 Oral Presentation of “BIOSTIMULANTS GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES” at the SAIN 4 SHGBEE3 (Siem Reap, Cambodia) November 22, 2024 DA-BAFS Support to the Celebration of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) November 22, 2024 Supervised Certification of PGS Group (Aborian and Quezon, Palawan) November 21, 2024 1 2 3 4 5

The DA-BAFS team conducted an assessment of a core PGS group in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur, on December 3-5, 2024, to evaluate the group’s compliance with the PGS accreditation requirements. Accreditation ensures the group’s competence, consistency, and impartiality in delivering organic certification services. The assessment was supported by DA Regional Field Office, ATI-Regional Training Center of Zamboanga Peninsula, and Tigbao’s Local Government Unit. Learn more about the accreditation of PGS group as Organic Certifying Body thru this link: https://bit.ly/Orga#dabafs #OAassessment #PGSforOA #BAFSonthemove #DABAFS Assessment to a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Group (Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur) December 12, 2024 Oath Taking Ceremony of DA-BAFS Newly Appointed Employees for FY 2024 December 6, 2024 ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Surveillance Audit December 6, 2024 Validation Workshop with the DA-Food Safety Regulatory Agencies (FSRAs) for the Study “Baseline Assessment on the Use and Impact of Philippines national Standards (PNS)” December 4, 2024 Oral Presentation of “BIOSTIMULANTS GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES” at the SAIN 4 SHGBEE3 (Siem Reap, Cambodia) November 22, 2024 DA-BAFS Support to the Celebration of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) November 22, 2024 Supervised Certification of PGS Group (Aborian and Quezon, Palawan) November 21, 2024 DA-BAFS Assessment Team conducted an assessment to a core PGS Group based in Amadeo, Cavite November 21, 2024 1 2 3 4