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The treatment facility is expected to be finished before January 16, 2008 to coincide with the 78th anniversary of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The special guest-of-honor to preside over the ribbon-cutting ceremony will be Department of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap.
The export of ornamental and live plants, as well as fruit tree seedlings is estimated at $2,084,581.19. The treatment facility that will cost P750,000 will help exporters who do not have their own treatment area to export with ease.
For more information on the Plant Quarantine Service of the Bureau of Plant Industry, call (02) 4040409 or (02) 5243749.
The
Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) of the Department of Agriculture
(DA) will be the lead implementing agency of a national program
on vegetable backyard raising in selected regions of the country
along with other DA agencies which include the Bureau of Animal
Industry, Agricultural Training Institute, Bureau of Fisheries
and Aquatic Resources and the Department's Regional Field Units
and with the Local Government Units and the Department of Social
Welfare and Development.
Plant and Industry Director Lealyn A. Ramos said the program, ?Programmang Gulayan ng Masa tungo sa kanayunang malusog at busog sa pag-asa,? also known as Farm Family Program aims to reduce rural hunger and malnutrition though the promotion of integrated food production through backyard gardening in the country?s most vulnerable rural communities and provision of training and starter seeds, planting materials, chicken, swine, small livestock and fish. Communal gardens for those without lots to till will be established and will likewise serve as seed and planting materials nursery in the areas. Technical assistance will be given by the DA agencies co-implementing the program.
Some 1,163 barangays very very vulnerable (VVV) to hunger and malnutrition, earlier identified by the DOH-National Nutrition Council as such, in Masbate, Sulu and Tawi-tawi will be the priority areas for assistance and then the program will move to include 1,000 very vulnerable (VV) barangays in Apayao, Capiz, Negros Oriental, Zamboanga del Norte, Basilan, Bukidnon, Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur. The program will benefit some 216,300 rural families over the next five years.
For 2006, some 170 barangays from the provinces of Sulu, Tawi-tawi, Masbate, Apayao and Zamboanga del Norte covering a total of 17,000 rural families.
Agriculture
Secretary Domingo F. Panganiban presented the program to President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in a cabinet meeting.
Identified as a national Center of the BPI for tropical crops and ornamentals in July, 1988 as per Executive Order No. 116, the BPI-Los Baños National Crop Research and Development Center, (formerly known as BPI-Economic Garden) assists in the formulation/development and implementation of plans, programs and policies on research and development on agricultural commodities, production and distribution of high quality seeds and planting materials, and in the transfer of generated technologies for the development of plant industry.
The Bureau of Plant Industry is promoting in situ
conservation of wild blueberry in its efforts to collect germplasm
materials that are of economic importance.
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The Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH (InWent) is conducting its eLDI (e-Learning Development and Implementation) Training Course that will last for nine months. This program is being attended by Solita R. Sicat, ...
The Bureau of Plant Industry participated in the DA-Gender and Development Focal System's Celebration of the National Women's Day Celebration ...
The Bureau of Plant Industry celebrated its 76th Anniversary at its compound in San Andres, Manila last January 23-24, 2006 with a theme "BPI at DA-RFU's: Magkabalikat sa Pagpapaunlad ng Agrikultura."