FAO honors Filipina farmer

MANILA, Philippines -  Myrna Conmigo Asor (3rd from left) poses with three other farmers from Bhutan, Tonga and Thailand, during the 2013 World Food Day ceremony in Bangkok where they received the ‘Asia-Pacific World Food Day Model Farmer Award’ from Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand (4th from left). Others in the photo (from left) are: Food and Agriculture Organization assistant director-general and regional representative for Asia and Pacific Hiroyuki Konuma, Bhutan farmer Sithar Dendup, Tonga farmer Malia Sosefo Guttenbeil, Thailand farmer Jarun Jaroensab, UN undersecretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Noeleen Heyzer, and FAO deputy regional representative Vili Fuavao. Asor (inset) was previously awarded as one of the country’s ‘Outstanding Rural Women’ in 2011 by Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala and Undersecretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat.