Presto takes hydroponics programme to Marabella Primary

Presto is ex­pand­ing its school hy­dro­pon­ics pro­gramme, tak­ing its agri­cul­tur­al and en­tre­pre­neur­ship ini­tia­tive to Mara­bel­la Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, as the com­pa­ny seeks to equip pupils with prac­ti­cal farm­ing and busi­ness skills.

The lat­est ex­pan­sion, launched last Thurs­day, al­so saw Su­per­Pharm do­nate two bench­es made from re­cy­cled ma­te­ri­als, ex­tend­ing a cor­po­rate part­ner­ship be­yond re­tail and in­to com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment.

The ini­tia­tive at­tract­ed the sup­port of Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath, who linked the pro­gramme to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s in­creased em­pha­sis on prac­ti­cal agri­cul­tur­al learn­ing in schools and the role of Agri­cul­tur­al Sci­ence in the as­sess­ment frame­work as­so­ci­at­ed with the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment, which is to be rein­tro­duced as the CAC Con­tin­u­ous As­sess­ment Com­po­nent.