Biotech Course for RP Local Chief Executives
September 21, 2007| |
Local chief executives and representatives of more than 20 towns from all over the Philippines attended a two-day crash course on biotechnology, with emphasis on agricultural applications. The course included discussions of modern and traditional biotechnology; possible applications; and the various measures available to local government units (LGU) to help the farmers and traders gain from its economic potentials.
Overall, the participants gave the course a positive rating, saying that it provided them very important inputs on how biotechnology can help improve governance through various interventions at the local level. Mayor Florcelie L. Esguerra said learning biotechnology and its economic potentials helped her determine strategies for local development in terms of learning more, planning and the capacity to implement biotech programs to boost agricultural production. Mayors Development Center (MDC) president Gerardo DeLeon said that the pilot-testing of the LGU Course on Biotech will serve as the MDC's take off point to share the wealth of information on how to increase farm production.
The course was made possible by a collaborative effort of the Biotechnology Program Office of the country’s Department of Agriculture, the Biotechnology for Life Media Advocacy and Resource Center (BMARC) and International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
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