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PHILIPPINES
1-PHILIPPINES: NEW SUB1 RICE LINES DEVELOPED IN LESS TIME
2-GOV’T RENEWING DRIVE FOR PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF BT CORN PROPAGATION
3-MILITANT FARMERS RENEW CALL FOR END TO USE OF HYBRIDS
MALAYSIA
4-GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES TO ENCOURAGE LABOUR-SAVING TECHNOLOGY
AFRICA
5-VIRUS RAVAGES CASSAVA PLANTS IN AFRICA
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6-IFIC SURVEY: INTEREST IN ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY PREVAILS IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
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PHILIPPINES
1-PHILIPPINES: NEW SUB1
RICE LINES DEVELOPED IN LESS TIME
by Ramon Efren R. Lazaro / Correspondent
01-June-2010 Business
Mirror
PHILRICE, Nueva Ecija—The Philippine
Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and
the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) have developed the rice line
PSB Rc82-Sub1 through marker-assisted
breeding approach that makes the transfer
of submergence-tolerant gene (sub1)
significantly less time-consuming.
Rice breeding typically takes eight to
11 years to complete.
Loida Perez, lead author of the paper
titled “PSB Rc82-Sub1: A New Submergence
Tolerant Rice Cultivar Developed Through
Marker-Assisted Breeding,” said
that DNA marker-assisted breeding is estimated
to save at least three to six years in
the breeding process.
She explained that DNA markers are “landmarks
that point plant breeders to a specific
region of interest in the chromosome,
thereby lessening the process.”
“With the strong partnership of
scientists between PhilRice and IRRI and
funding from Japan’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs through the IRRI-Japan
Submergence Tolerance Project of Dr. David
J. Mackill, we have embarked on the project
of transferring the sub1 from NSIC Rc194
(IR64-Sub1) into PSB Rc82, a popular and
high-yielding irrigated rice cultivar
with known resistance to major rice pests
and diseases,” she said.
PhilRice and IRRI identified four PSB
Rc82-Sub1 materials.
Initial morpho-agronomic traits such as
grain quality revealed that the improved
PSB Rc82-Sub1 materials were comparable
to the original PSB Rc82 (non-sub1).
All four lines had fixed sub1 and were
established in 2010 dry season at PhilRice
Central Experiment Station to determine
yield and yield-related parameters and
to produce seed for evaluation and promotion
in submergence or flash flood-prone
areas in the country.
The paper discussed that sub1 is responsible
for submergence tolerance in rice at vegetative
stage for up to two weeks.
From Indian rice variety FR13A, it was
successfully transferred to IR64 via marker-assisted
breeding at IRRI producing IR64-Sub1,
which was recently registered as commercial
variety by the National Seed Industry
Council of the Philippines as NSIC Rc194
with a local name “Submarino 1”
for the flood-prone ecosystems in the
country.
With the release of Submarino 1, however,
Perez said researchers continued to
develop other lines or varieties with
submergence tolerance such as the PSB
Rc82-Sub1 for farmers to have options
on the variety to use in pest and disease-stricken
rain-fed areas in the country.
Submergence or flash flood-prone rice
areas in the Philippines are estimated
at around 300,000 hectares. In addition
to damage brought by typhoons and floods
in lowland farms, rice farming productivity
is very low in these areas because farmers
there plant rice only once a year.
2-GOV’T RENEWING DRIVE FOR
PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF BT CORN PROPAGATION
by Marvyn N. Benaning
26-May-2010 Manila
Bulletin
The Department of Agriculture (DA)
has renewed its campaign to generate
public acceptance of genetically-modified
(GM) crops, particularly Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt) corn that is now being cultivated
in 400,000 hectares across the country.
It has brought together scientists,
members of the academe and industry
associations and tackled the matter
during a seminar conducted by the Bureau
of Agricultural Research (BAR) entitled
“Modern Biotechnology and Agriculture:
The Case of Biotech Maize in the Philippines”
at the BAR office in Quezon City.
The seminar was aimed to provide insights
and foster public understanding of modern
biotechnology, particularly on Bt corn,
to allay fears about genetically modified
organisms (GMOs).
GMOs are products of biological engineering
that allow the transfer of specific
genes within the organism or genes from
one organism to another. Bt corn is
a GMO because of a certain gene from
the naturally-occurring soil bacterium,
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that has
been transferred to corn.
This gene, coded for the production
of a specific protein, delta-endotoxin
protein, can be used to control specific
insects such as corn borer and other
Lepidopteran pests that cause tremendous
losses to the industry.
Dr. Dolores A. Ramirez, national scientist
and university professor emeritus of
genetics and plant breeding at the University
of the Philippines Los Baños
(UPLB), presented the structures and
protocols developed by the government
for the introduction, testing, propagation,
and commercialization of modern biotechnology
products in the country.
Dr. Ramirez stressed the role of the
National Committee on Biosafety of the
Philippines (NCBP) in overseeing compliance
with biosafety policies and guidelines
including research in the country.
NCBP is an organized inter-department
committee comprised of scientists from
the DA, Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR), Department
of Health (DoH) and Department of Science
and Technology (DoST).
Dr. Flerida A Cariño, physical
scientist and member of the Department
of Science and Technology (DoST) Biosafety
Committee, and professor of biochemistry
at the Institute of Chemistry in UP
Diliman also presented the technical
descriptions of Bt corn. She also narrated
the problems they encountered with both
anti- and pro-GMO groups during the
process of rigorous trials.
Dr. Cariño said Bt corn has
stirred animated and passionate debates
on the streets, in academic circles,
in mass media as well as in both chambers
of the Philippine legislature. In fact,
the anti-GMO groups have filed petitions
with local government units (LGUs),
the House of Representatives, the Senate,
and even the Supreme Court (SC) that
have resulted to various congressional
resolutions and Senate bills.
3-MILITANT FARMERS RENEW CALL
FOR END TO USE OF HYBRIDS
by Marvyn N. Benaning
02-June-2010 Manila
Bulletin
The threat posed by superweeds on US corn
and soya plantations have rekindled the
demand of militant farmers and scientists
for an end to the cultivation of hybrids.
Less than two months ago, the same
groups – Kilusang Magbubukid ng
Pilipinas (KMP) and the Magsasaka at
Siyentipiko sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura
(Masipag) – also demanded the
dismantling of the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) in Laguna,
which they claimed "did not provide
relief from farmers' woes and instead
created layers upon layers of burden."
"IRRI's rice technology caters
only to a few wealthy farmers, agricultural
suppliers and multinational corporations,"
Dr. Chito Medina, national coordinator
of Masipag, said.
With IRRI's encouragement, fertilizer
use in Asia rose from only 52 kilos
per hectare in 1979 to 138 kilos per
hectare in 1999.
Output also declined markedly after
the soil was bombarded with chemical
inputs and Masipag suspects that this
is the culprit for soil sterility.
The annual Asian rice growth rate of
3.4 percent in 1977 slid to only 1.5
percent in 1997.
Medina said Masipag opposes the use
of hybrids since these are heavily dependent
on chemical inputs, the high costs of
which pushed farmers into debt servitude
since IRRI's Green Revolution was launched.
The rise of superweeds festering corn
and soyabean plantations in the US also
showed just how weak the claim of the
large US agriculture input company Monsanto
that its Roundup Ready corn was genetically
designed to tolerate weeds.
While the biotech corn did resist weeds,
these weeds developed immunity to glyphosate,
a herbicide that Monsanto had propagated
and is now used in many US plantations.
Militant farmers and scientists insist
that the battle against weeds and pests
is a never-ending battle and this has
been made even more significant as pests
and weeds have mutated and proved to
resist the debilitating effects of herbicides
and pesticides.
MALAYSIA
4-GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES
TO ENCOURAGE LABOUR-SAVING TECHNOLOGY
27-May-2010 Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (Bernama) -- The
government is looking into the proposal
to provide more attractive incentives
to encourage private sector investment
in labour-saving technology, especially
in the agriculture and agro-based industry.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin
Yassin said the agricultural sector
needed to change from a labour-intensive
sector to that of a technology-intensive
sector to enhance productivity.
"The use of agricultural mechanisation
and automation should be enhanced to
increase production as well as to add
value and efficiency in view of the
fact that more than 50 per cent of workers
in the food production sector are foreign
workers.
"Intensifying the use of mechanisation
and automation will not only minimise
the need for labour but also the reliance
on foreign workers," he said when
opening the Food Security Convention
2010-2020 here Thursday.
Present were Agriculture and Agro-based
Industry Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar
and Noh's two deputy ministers Datuk
Mohd Johari Baharum and Datuk Rohani
Abdul Karim.
Muhyiddin said the agriculture and
agro-based industry needed the participation
of the private sector to ensure growth
and supply sufficiency.
"I urge the private sector to
take the lead in spurring the growth
in the country's food production sector.
The government, as the facilitator,
will support and encourage private investment
in this sector," he said.
He spelled out several factors which
he said would ensure growth in the sector,
among them the use of technology and
innovation, expansion of information
communication technology (ICT) application,
quality human capital and an increase
in institutional efficiency.
He said ICT potentials should be harnessed
throughout the food production chain
including in the implementation of precision
farming.
"Precision farming will reduce
agricultural inputs such as fertiliser,
chemicals and water and encourage sustainable
production.
"In terms of food security, ICT
is being widely used in the food traceability
system and in developing food biotechnology
such as bioinformatics, process engineering
and product development," he said.
Muhyiddin also spoke of the need to
enhance knowledge and skills among farmers,
livestock breeders, fishermen and agricultural
entrepreneurs so that they would be
able to put into practice new findings
and able to manage resources in a sustainable
manner.
"At the same time, government
officers, especially those in the frontlines
who deal directly with target groups
should continue to enhance knowledge
and skills not only in terms of technical
but also in the management of all aspects
of the supply chain," he said.
He said international standards should
be practised to ensure food products
were safe and of high quality.
"Apart from adherence to standards
such as Codex Alimentarius, Global-Gap,
ISO and HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical
Control Point), we can also study and
develop a standard based on the Halalan
Toyyiban (halal and safe) concept,"
he said.
Meanwhile, Noh said the proposed incentives,
including matching grants and tax incentives,
would attract private sector participation
in the country's agriculture and agro-based
industry.
"In terms of matching grants,
for instance, if a company acquires
a machine, it only needs to pay half
of the price, with the government paying
the remaining half. We can also collaborate
with companies to provide trained workers,"
he told a news conference.
He said that the Fourth National Agriculture
Policy, covering a 10-year period until
2020, was being formulated to replace
the Third National Agriculture Policy
which expires this year.
"The core of the policy is food
security," he said.
The one-day convention, attended by
200 participants, was to discuss and
obtain feedback on the issue of food
security.
AFRICA
5-VIRUS RAVAGES CASSAVA
PLANTS IN AFRICA
by Donald G. McNeil Jr.
31-May-2010 The
New York Times
MUKONO, Uganda — Lynet Nalugo dug
a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced
it open.
Inside its tan skin, the white flesh
was riddled with necrotic brown lumps,
as obviously diseased as any tuberculosis
lung or cancerous breast.
“Even the pigs refuse this,”
she said.
The plant was what she called a “2961,”
meaning it was Variant No. 2961, the
only local strain bred to resist cassava
mosaic virus, a disease that caused
a major African famine in the 1920s.
But this was not mosaic disease, which
only stunts the plants. Her field had
been attacked by a new and more damaging
virus named brown streak, for the marks
it leaves on stems.
That newcomer, brown streak, is now
ravaging cassava crops in a great swath
around Lake Victoria, threatening millions
of East Africans who grow the tuber
as their staple food.
Although it has been seen on coastal
farms for 70 years, a mutant version
emerged in Africa’s interior in
2004, “and there has been explosive,
pandemic-style spread since then,”
said Claude M. Fauquet, director of
cassava research at the Donald Danforth
Plant Science Center in St. Louis. “The
speed is just unprecedented, and the
farmers are really desperate.”
Two years ago, the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation convened cassava experts
and realized that brown streak “was
alarming quite a few people,”
said Lawrence Kent, an agriculture program
officer at the foundation. It has given
$27 million in grants to aid agencies
and plant scientists fighting the disease.
The threat could become global. After
rice and wheat, cassava is the world’s
third-largest source of calories. Under
many names, including manioc, tapioca
and yuca, it is eaten by 800 million
people in Africa, South America and
Asia.
The danger has been likened to that
of Phytophthora infestans, the blight
that struck European potatoes in the
1840s, setting off a famine that killed
perhaps a million people in Ireland
and forced even more to emigrate.
That event changed the history of all
English-speaking countries.
Compared with amber waves of grain
or the blond tresses of a field of ripe
corn, cassava is an inglorious workhorse
of a crop, a few spindly red stems sprouting
from a clutch of brown tubers. It is
filling but not very nutritious; it
even contains trace amounts of cyanide,
which must be removed by grinding and
fermenting.
But subsistence farmers depend on it
because it’s “very drought-tolerant
and very bad-management-tolerant,”
said Edward Charles, a team leader for
the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative,
a six-country consortium based in Kenya
and supported by the Gates Foundation.
For example, he said, even when farmers
are too weak from malaria to weed, their
crops survive.
Also, the tubers can be left underground
for up to three years, so if drought
kills a corn or bean crop, the farmer’s
family can still fend off starvation.
But the plant falls prey to more than
20 pests and diseases.
Dr. Fauquet fears brown streak will
cross the Congo Basin to Nigeria, the
world’s biggest grower, because
farmers sell cuttings to one another
and border controls are nonexistent
or can be evaded with bribes.
He is optimistic it will not cross
the ocean into Thailand, Brazil, Indonesia
or China because there is no world trade
in the cuttings and few direct flights
to Asia or South America. (Whiteflies,
which are thought to spread the virus,
have been known to stow aboard planes.)
However, he noted, mosaic virus did
spread to India from Africa somehow.
And Dai Peters, the Cassava Initiative’s
director, noted that a mealybug that
damages Brazilian cassavas has leapfrogged
the globe to infect Thai fields, too.
Even if the brown streak virus is contained
in Africa, Dr. Fauquet said, donors
may eventually be forced to spend billions
of dollars on food aid to prevent starving
populations from going on the move,
which could set off ethnic fighting.
Donations by the Gates Foundation,
the United States Agency for International
Development and a foundation run by
Monsanto, the crop technology company,
have totaled about $50 million thus
far, but compared with the threat, “that’s
a droplet in the ocean,” Dr. Fauquet
said.
The largest Gates grant, $22 million,
went to Dr. Peters’s initiative,
which is overseen by Catholic Relief
Services, an American charity. Working
with the national agricultural laboratories
of six countries, it combines American
computer technology, African rural self-help
initiatives and research started a century
ago by British colonialists.
Right now, there is no cassava strain
in Africa immune to brown streak, so
the initiative is essentially buying
time, teaching farmers to recognize
diseased crops, asking them to burn
them and offering them clean cuttings
so they can get one or two harvests
before the virus strikes again.
They are hoping for a lucky break,
like the success they are finally having
against banana wilt, another virus that
attacked a different East African staple
food.
In that case, the solution was relatively
simple, said Chris A. Omongo, an entomologist
at the National Crops Resources Research
Institute in Namulonge, Uganda.
Since bees and dirt spread the virus,
farmers were taught to nip the purple
male flower buds off each stalk and
to clean their tools and boots before
entering their banana patches.
(The virus was jokingly called “banana
AIDS,” because it, too, spread
along the Uganda-Tanzania highways and
rivers. Banana beer was shipped in jerry
cans with the fat purple flowers used
as stoppers.)
Some wild and some foreign cassava
strains do appear resistant to brown
streak, Dr. Fauquet said, but they lack
the taste and consistency that Africans
like. (Some cassava strains are grown
just for flour, for industrial paste
or for the food enhancer MSG.)
Dr. Fauquet’s lab is trying to
splice genes from them into African
varieties. Because of the extensive
safety testing required for new plants
produced that way, the process will
take at least five years, he estimated.
Here in Uganda, because there are so
few government agricultural agents,
the Cassava Initiative is building its
own parallel network. Its agents have
no power to destroy a crop or seize
a truckful of diseased cuttings. But
they do have rugged minicomputers with
software to help them teach farmers
to recognize the disease. They can also
pinpoint a suspect field’s GPS
location, take photographs and send
them from any Internet cafe.
To help farmers work together, the
initiative also helps them form savings
clubs, giving everyone a steel cash
box and guidance.
Members put in a few dollars each week,
and offer loans of $50 or $100 for money-generating
projects like buying a flock of hens
or brick-making molds. At year’s
end, they divide the profit, which can
be hefty since the interest rate is
120 percent.
Mrs. Nalugo keeps the cash box for
her local savings club, and she may
have to borrow from it this year. If
her cassava crop had been healthy, she
estimated, she could have sold it for
$500.
Instead, she said, “the loss
is pushing us back — we will have
to buy food.”
However, she is a smart farmer. She
had learned the symptoms of brown streak
from Elijah Kajubi, the initiative’s
local agent.
When her plants were only knee-high,
she said, “I became suspicious,
so I planted beans, too.”
UNITED STATES
6-IFIC SURVEY: INTEREST
IN ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
PREVAILS IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
02-June-2010 Earth
Times
International Food Information Council
survey examines consumer attitudes toward
food technology.
Washington, DC (Vocus) June 2, 2010 --
The International Food Information Council
(IFIC) 2010 “Consumer
Perceptions of Food Technology”
survey found that consumers support the
use of food biotechnology when they consider
its potential benefits for reducing the
impact of food and food production on
the environment, and for improving sustainability.
The 14th IFIC Food Technology Consumer
Survey (formerly the IFIC Survey of
Consumer Attitudinal Trends toward Food
Biotechnology) explored U.S. consumers’
perceptions of various aspects of plant
and animal biotechnology, as well as
sustainability and new and emerging
technologies such as nanotechnology.
This year, consumers responded most
positively to benefits of biotechnology
for the environment and sustainability.
For example, more than three-quarters
(77%) of consumers would be likely to
purchase foods produced through biotechnology
for their ability to reduce pesticide
use (consistent from 2008), and 80%
of consumers said they would be likely
to purchase bread, crackers, cookies,
cereal, or pasta products containing
wheat that was grown using plant biotechnology
if they were produced using sustainable
practices to feed more people using
fewer resources such as land and pesticides
(new question in 2010). While products
containing wheat grown using biotechnology
are still up to a decade away from being
com
mercially available, these data indicate
a receptive audience to such products
if they are produced through sustainable
practices.
“These results suggest that the
importance of the impact of food production
on the environment is here to stay for
consumers,” said Marianne Smith
Edge, MS, RD, LD, FADA, IFIC’s
Interim Vice President, Nutrition and
Food Safety. “Over the last several
years we’ve seen the overall awareness
of sustainability and environmental
issues continue to grow.”
Awareness & Perceptions of Sustainability
in Food Production Half of consumers
(50%) have heard or read at least “a
little” about the concept of sustainability
in food production. This is a significant
increase from 2008, when only four in
ten (41%) had read or heard anything
about sustainability in food production,
and 2007, when only three in ten (30%)
had heard or read anything about sustainability
in food production.
With the increased focus by Americans
on reducing environmental impact, we
see that those aspects of sustainable
crop production benefiting the environment
resonate most with consumers. When asked
to rank aspects of sustainable crop
production (from a list of options)
in order of importance, consumers’
top three are: -- “Growing more
food on less land so valuable land like
rain forests is not destroyed/used as
growing space for increased food production.”
(69%) -- “Reducing the amount
of pesticides needed to produce food.”
(65 %) -- “Plants that use water
more efficiently, thereby conserving
fresh water to help cope with predicted
droughts and water shortages.”
(62%)
Other Survey Findings
Confidence in the Food Supply:
Seven in ten consumers (69%) are somewhat
or very confident in the safety of the
U.S. food supply.
Labeling: The majority
of consumers (82%) cannot think of additional
information they would like to see on
food labels. More than sixty percent of
consumers (63%) agree with the Food and
Drug Administration’s (FDA) food
labeling policy, which requires food products
to be labeled when use of biotechnology
substantially changes the food’s
nutritional content (such as vitamins
or fat) or its composition, or when a
potential food safety issue is identified.
Only 12 percent oppose, and 24% neither
support nor oppose the policy.
Perceptions of Food Biotechnology:
About seven in ten Americans (69%) say
they have heard or read at least “a
little” about biotechnology, steady
from previous years. Significantly more
consumers believe there are foods produced
through biotechnology in the supermarket
now (28%) compared with 2008 (23%), although
these consumers are still the minority.
The majority of consumers are somewhat
or very likely to purchase a variety
of produce, such as tomatoes or potatoes,
modified by biotechnology to provide
more healthful fats like Omega-3s (76%);
to avoid trans fat (74%); or to make
them taste better/fresher (67%). Impressions
of Plant Biotechnology: About one-third
(32%) are somewhat or very favorable
toward plant biotechnology, with about
two in ten (19%) somewhat or very unfavorable
and about three in ten (29%) neither
favorable nor unfavorable.
Impressions of Animal Biotechnology:
About three in ten (29%) Americans are
somewhat or very favorable toward animal
biotechnology, while slightly more than
one-quarter (27%) are somewhat or very
unfavorable, and about one-quarter (24%)
are neither favorable nor unfavorable.
Interestingly, the majority of consumers
who are either unfavorable or neutral
in their views toward animal biotechnology
cited “I don’t have enough
information” about animal biotechnology
(55%) and/or “I don’t understand
the benefits of using biotechnology
with animals” (39%) as their reason(s)
for being unfavorable or neutral.
Perceptions of Nanotechnology:
Slightly more than one-third (35%) of
Americans have read or heard at least
“a little” about nanotechnology,
a science that involves the design and
application of structures, devices and
systems on an extremely small scale, called
the nanoscale (i.e. billionths of a meter,
or about 1-millionth the size of a pinhead).
However, when consumers were given examples
of potential benefits of food applications
of nanotechnology, such as food packaging
and processing to improve food safety,
and quality and better nutrient and ingredient
profiles to improve health, half of consumers
(49%) were favorable toward the technology.
To view previous Survey findings, visit
the International Food
Information Council Foundation Web site:
http://www.foodinsight.org/Resources/Detail.aspx?
topic=Consumer_Insights_Regarding_Food_Biotechnology
For more information on food biotechnology,
view our Food Biotechnology Fact Sheet:
http://www.foodinsight.org/Resources/
Detail.aspx?topic=Fact_Sheet_Benefits_of_Food_Biotechnology
Methodology Formerly known as the “IFIC
Survey of Consumer Attitudinal Trends
toward Food Biotechnology,” this
year’s survey was expanded to
also look at consumer awareness and
perceptions of other new and emerging
technologies, such as nanotechnology.
IFIC commissioned Cogent Research of
Cambridge, MA, to conduct the 14th in
a series (1997-2010) of quantitative
assessments of U.S. adult consumer attitudes
toward food technology from April 5
to April 26, 2010. The survey had a
sample size of 750 and the data were
weighted on marital status and education
to be nationally representative.
For additional information on the food
technology survey, or to schedule an
interview with an expert please call
the IFIC Media Team at 202-296-6540.
The International Food Information Council's
(IFIC's) mission is to effectively communicate
science-based information on food safety
and nutrition to health and nutrition
professionals, educators, journalists,
government officials and others providing
information to consumers. IFIC is supported
primarily by the broad-based food, beverage
and agricultural industries. IFIC and
IFIC Foundation materials can be found
on our Web site: www.foodinsight.org.
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KAPNAYAN
Seminar Series 2009
Presentations available for download:
- Applications
of Nanotechnology for the Environment,
Dr. Lorele Trinidad, BIOTECH,
University of the Philippines Los
Baños (UPLB)
- Prospects,
Environmental Impact and Energy Security
Potential of Biofuels in the Philippines,
Dr. Rex Demafelis, UPLB Dept.
of Chemical Engineering
- Environmental
Biotechnology Applications,
Dr. Jessica Simbahan, BIOTECH,
UPLB
- How
Do We Adapt to Climate Change,
Dr. Virginia Cuevas, UPLB Institute
of Biological Sciences
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SEARCA
is in need of the following:
Applications will be received until 07
May 2010 or until a suitable
candidate is found.
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SEARCA
Agriculture and Development Seminar Series (ADSS)
PROFESSORIAL
CHAIR LECTURE: Waste Management in the
Emerging Philippine Biofuel Industry
Speaker: Prof. Rex B. Demafelis, Chairman,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University
of the Philippines Los Baños
SEARCA, College, Laguna, Philippines
15 June 2010, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Download
SEARCA ADSS presentation handouts here
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