TUTU RURAL Trainining Center

Tutu Rural Trainining Centre is been represented to the first ever youth agrilympic in Manila Philippines by member farmer and alumanae Mr Kositatino Tikoiroma farmers # MOA

Parents of the 27 single women who will be graduating this Thursday 1/8/24 are going through a three days parents course in preparations of celebrating their achievement and the establishment of their three year plan farmers

Immaculate Conception Parish, weekend Solevu, Bula.

Bula Vinaka Everyone!
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2024 Tutu Staff Retreat – Dare to Dream – TUTU Rural Training Center The 2024 Tutu Rural Training Centre staff seminar ended on a high note with the theme “Dare to Dream” with 48 staff who attended the week-long staff seminar. This is a yearly event which began with a two days retreat directed by Fr Samuela Tukidia sm, one day of capacity building and three days ...

Nature at its best as we spend time with our Young Farmers on their yaqona farms for the counting of their Tutu planting target after a year of growth. Great effort boys.👏👏👏

Great to be with Caritas NZ whanau at the meeting today with the welcoming and information sharing in regards with the Thriving Life program. Great to meet up with Sr Josefa who was part of my formation while on pastoral in this part of the country years ago with Challenge 2000. Great to have Fijian connection around…this is super fitting for our giving lives and hope for the people we serve program …Caritas NZ you are super special to us. Team Tutu Rural Training Centre I am super proud of you.Human Formation is at the heart of our program at the sametime data and information sharing are so important to use as a working tool …Kia o ra whanau

Have the tim to meet with our partner in Wellington NZ and discuss with our business partner our future activities with the current updat of the current activities...our Tutu faces will be never forgotten ...Enabling lives of Dignity and Hope...thank you Caritas NZ

Extension visitation is one of our very important programs run here at Tutu, as this is where we begin to meet the people, inwhich it is the very heart of our service in our Mission and it is the first place that we connect with the people, firstly getting in touch with their felt needs and driving them to Tutu and to let them Discover their real needs.
Our latest visitation on Vanua Levu areas consisted with 32 villages including a few settlements, recruiting single women's for our 2024 course. It also included visiting the 33 applicants that have applied, tapping on our 2020 graduated farming couples on their 5yrs development plan, our 2021 KYF's too with their house building progress. Our one on one interviews with our ex participants is always very Inspiring on how they have moved on and admitting their weaknesses as a source of their new growth.
The visitation was also challenging, having long hours drive from village to village, sleepless nights, greeted by kava almost every where we stopped, traveling by fiber boats to areas where the roads does not reach and at times walking to get to other village's, but we still find it enjoyable & interesting for we are getting to meet more & more new faces, new places and this is all part of our Mission.
Once again we would like to acknowledge all our Donars & Benefactors for your love and unending support in our Mission, vinaka vakalevu.

The assistant Minister of Agriculture and Water Ways Mr Tomasi Tunabuna was the chief guest at the 2023 Farming Couples course graduation.Farming couples graduate after six months of formation, the course is about their hopes dreams and pain their relationship their affectivity whereby the couples are helped to take charge of their relationship the key for a succesful enterprise …congratulations to Wani and Vulase and your band of graduants we are super super proud of you all

Supporting Tutu women in floriculture industries has changed lives for many rural women farmers. The recent market day has developed many interest in the promotion of floriculture as a commodity with knowlege and skills necessary to start and maintain a viable small floriculture business in Fiji…yes natures speaks of itself

Integrating what is learnt at the BeeKeping Congress at the TRTC Bee Hives. Appropriate monitoring of support to the frame, making sure that the hives is level and making sure the drawn frames as guides. Today TUTU RURAL Trainining Center bee keeping team harvest few trays …hats off to the hard working team

For the love of the soil is a land manager’s roadmap to healthy soil and revitalized food systems in these challenging times. Most of our land in Fiji has been lost to degradation and erosion with a take a soil first approach to our landscape, restoring natural cycles and bringing vitality back to the ecosystems is the main theme of the four days soil school workshop at the TUTU RURAL Trainining Center with 94participants.Thank you to and Organic Matter Foundation for make it possible for youth and women in agriculture learn more of the importance of Soil health School Matters Foundation

Appreciate the contribution of TRTC board of directors for the first face to face meeting. Very productive and informative session. Many thanks to the TUTU RURAL Trainining Center staff for the ongoing contributions to the running of the centre.

The venue is set for and welcome to TUTU RURAL Trainining Center board members and special welcome to our new board members Fr’s Lote Raiwalui and Milikiade Rayalu …missing the presence of Mr Andrew McGregor and Fr Michael McVerry sm. Special thanks to our stakeholders for your ongoing support

The recent completion of the introduction to soil health has opened doors to farmer led research among farmers. Tutu Rural Training Center has been engaging Organic Matters Foundation to run Soil School program for a numbers of years now and it has helped rural farmers to be good stewards in tilling their land and at the same time create an environment that farmers are farming the ecosystems. Topics discuss include human and the planet, regenerative agriculture, farm productivity and profit, practical regenerative farm management,basic record keeping, mapping & risk assessment and understanding inputs in regenerative agriculture. The program is to empower farmers to remember what they already know. ,

Our 2 days Soil Health - Soil School- An Introduction at Tutu with our farming couples for 2023, staffs and with our facilitator Mr Mike Smith. Very interesting and inspiring messages of knowing our Soil first is to Balance it, balancing our plants and that we are all Nature.

The 2023 TRTC Parents Course came into completion . The first three days were spent with sessions on the aims and art of parenting, the six stages of parenting,communicating with young people, generation gap and the reality facing them with 18,000 young people finishing form 6 and 7 in Fiji but only four thousand going on to study and the rest coming back to the village. We tell them there is nothing wrong with them or their children when they come back to the villages and have not stayed in towns for work. We have to work hard convincing them because they think it is a sign of failure that they have paid an investment in education and in their eyes have got nothing back for it. So we go through all of this very careful and thoroughly. The major point in the course midway in the week when we take them all up on their tractors to the young farmers plantation to where they see the yaqona and dalo plantations dripping with dollars

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TRTC scoping work has done and breadfruit Characterisation is on the way for Taveuni with TRTC team with a view of creating awareness on breadfruit production, propagation types, breadfruit varieties with a view of create awareness on the importance of breadfruit and its resilience towards productive and sustainable agroecological Agri-food systems through farmer led innovation reasearch # Breadfruit People # FO4ACP

St Stephen altar services end of the year sports day

Tutu Netters On the move

Tutu former and current participants ongoing monitoring program with Traseable Farms will help increase agricultural productivity and promote efficient management in modern agriculture uplifting farming as an enterprise whereby it will monitor the field environment, crop conditions, financial management and farming operations

Final day of our Soil School rapping up on how to differentiate between soil fertilizer & soil improver, how to read a soil sample analysis, & a call to do records of all that we do on our farms for we are REGENERATIVE FARMERS & BUCKET SCIENTISTS. Thankyou once again Mr Mike Smith with and

Day 2 of our Soil School, visiting compost site & practical on collecting Soil sample, thankyou Mike Smith &