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The Philippines is fortunate to have bamboo growing abundantly almost everywhere. While this plant is available outright in every community, science and technology can further enhance its growth performance and ensure the sustainability of its supply, with bamboo being aptly considered as an alternative to timber.  

The Department of Science and Technology’s  Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD), through its Forestry and Environment Research Division, has identified bamboo among its priority commodities. Throughout the years, there are a good number of technologies that address various concerns on bamboo, specifically on its propagation and plantation management.

Among these technologies are propagation via branch cutting from 3-4 year old culms, and one-node culm cutting; clump management and suitable cultural treatments for two bamboo species: giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus asper Schultes f.) and kawayan tinik (Bambusa blumeana J. A. & A.H. Schultes f.).

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Almost half of the pre-weaner pigs suddenly excrete yellowish watery diarrhea. The same alarming picture can be seen in neighboring pens, wherein almost seven out of 10 piglets in a litter die.

“What infection has caused this unsightly scene to my farm?” a farmer thought while recalling the events that transpired during the recent days before the disease struck his farm. Though keeping himself unruffled, the ghastly disease progression displayed in front of him may just send him off the roof. Trying to muster composure, a farmer mentally recounts his earnings from the prior sale of the healthy finishers and the impending losses that is about to unfold right before his very eyes.

This horrendous sight is common among piggery farm owners as their animals experience bouts of gastrointestinal infections. Unfavorable incidents such as these, as experienced by our local swine producers, are replete with losses and economic impacts brought about by animal diseases. If only the pathogen has been detected before the animals exhibit the clinical symptoms, the battle can be considered as already half won.

There is good news, however.

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Wataru Sakuma makes world-class decors from handmade paper which in turn comes from agricultural wastes.

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The low-cost handicraft dryer is a cheaper, safer, and cleaner way for Masaeco to dry its products.

Wataru Sakuma, a Japanese designer based in the Philippines, is one of the newest adopters of the Department of Science and Technology - Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI) low-cost handicraft dryer (LCHD).

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario G. Montejo believes that this year’s celebration of National Science and Technology Week will prove that Filipino scientists can compete not only in Asia but throughout the rest of the world.

“Many of our scientists have carved major inroads in the field of S&T over the last two years, meriting recognition from the international science community,” Montejo said in a press conference last July 10, 2015 at Sulo Riviera Hotel in Quezon City.

NSTW is an annual showcase of locally developed technologies and the country’s biggest breakthroughs in S&T presented through interactive technology exhibits, robotics, scale model displays, product displays, science career talks, science and business fora, and many more.