DA 6 trains provincial AI coordinators on E-report system
The Department of Agriculture through the Unified National Artificial Insemination Program (UNAIP) conducted an Electronic Report (E-Report) System training for all provincial artificial insemination coordinators (PAIC) recently.
The training aims to improve the current reporting system from paper based reporting to computerized reporting sent via e-mail.
Dir. Jindra Linda L. Demeterio, OIC -- Regional Executive Director of DA 6 said that the implementation of E-report system will simplify the reporting system as well as minimize delays in report submission.
"We would like to establish an animal database at the backyard level and provide a feedback mechanism to the artificial insemination technicians and bull performance at the field level in the future," she added.
Mr. Manuel Porque, the regional AI coordinator said that the municipal AI technicians will submit their reports to the PAIC, wherein these reports will be encoded and sent via e-mail by the provincial coordinators to the regional and national coordinators, respectively.
"Through this system, there will be effective monitoring of AI services delivered in all parts of the country, and it is possible to analyze data establish in the database in detail," he said.
The E-report system was successfully implemented in the three regions namely: Regions III, VII and X which serves as the project area for the program. The achievement of the project paved the way to implement the program in the whole country.
The participants activated their UNAIP e-mail addresses through the yahoo.com search engine, know their individual codes and area codes, and sent their outputs to the DA-RFU 6 UNAIP e-mail address for feedback and clarification.
Mr. Porque stressed that provinces which has no Internet connections in their office can save the data file into the floppy disk and send it to RAIC through LBC or DHL.
The Provincial and Regional offices can reduce a lot of cost incurred in the printing and dissemination of enormous data from the LGUs to the upper organizations through the use of E-report system.
(JEEO/RAFID 6)