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Presto has tak­en an­oth­er step in its push to re­shape agri­cul­tur­al learn­ing in pri­ma­ry schools, de­liv­er­ing its fifth Hy­dro­pon­ics Gar­den this time to El So­cor­ro South Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School. The in­stal­la­tion, hand­ed over on Tues­day, equips stu­dents with the tools and train­ing to grow let­tuce, chive, cel­ery, and sweet pep­pers us­ing clean, ef­fi­cient, soil-free tech­nol­o­gy that mir­rors mod­ern farm­ing prac­tices.

For Presto, the project re­in­forces its com­mit­ment to its brand promise Fresh. Easy. Quick. Lo­cal while deep­en­ing the com­pa­ny’s cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty foot­print. But the im­pact ex­tends well be­yond brand­ing. The sys­tem is be­ing ful­ly in­te­grat­ed in­to the school’s agri­cul­tur­al sci­ence cur­ricu­lum, trans­form­ing what was once a the­o­ret­i­cal sub­ject in­to a hands-on, farm-to-ta­ble learn­ing ex­pe­ri­ence for pupils from Stan­dard 1 through Stan­dard 5.

Rep­re­sent­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr. Michael Dowlath, Cur­ricu­lum Of­fi­cer for Agri­cul­tur­al Sci­ence Dr. Vishal Ram­jat­tan un­der­scored how the ini­tia­tive strength­ens the min­istry’s part­ner­ship with Presto and sup­ports the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor’s push to­ward ex­pe­ri­en­tial learn­ing. He said the hy­dro­pon­ic set­up cre­ates an ac­tive learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment that en­cour­ages prob­lem solv­ing, sci­en­tif­ic in­quiry, and a prac­ti­cal un­der­stand­ing of food pro­duc­tion.