Manila, Feb. 19 -- The organizers of the upcoming 9th International Farm Tourism summit are hoping to boost the youth's enthusiasm in exploring farming with the promotion of the added value through tourism.

"We are on our 9th year, and we are bringing this to Baguio to invite the highland stakeholders to join and be informed of not just the benefits of farm-tourism, but also to show that there is more that can be than in farming, not just tilling the soil, but a lot more. This will also address the 2015 study showing that the Philippine farmers are ageing and we need to still produce food," Dr. Mina Gabor, former Department of Tourism (DOT) secretary and president of the International School of Sustainable Tourism, said in a press confer...