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STA. MARIA, Isabela -- A ceramic water filter facility outfitted with high-performing equipment from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)’s program for small businesses, dubbed SETUP or Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program, was blessed recently  during the Cagayan Valley leg of DOST’s “Science Nation: Agham na Ramdam” nationwide roadshow.

SETUP offers assistance to micro, small and medium enterprises via funding, technology upgrade, and manpower training, to improve their production and product quality, and be at par with other small businesses in the regional and national levels.

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Mrs. Fructoso Lana, owner of Frux Peanut Butter, is going nuts. It’s almost incredible that technology intervention worth P 541,600 has spread her income base to yummy figures.

According to Lana, Frux has increased its production by 136 percent and sales by 142 percent as the company is now able to produce quality peanut butter in different sizes such as 300g, 250g, 200g bottles and 50g that are widely distributed to established local markets. Among Frux Peanut Butter’s clients is Manolette Bakeshop with 200 branches all over the country.

At the closing ceremony of 2014 Mindanao DOST Science and Technology Fair at SMX Convention Center of SM Lanang in Davao City last year, Frux Peanut Butter was recognized for successfully implementing SETUP.

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For 54 years now, DOST’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) - thru its wood identification service – has been helping both local and foreign archaeologists in establishing the identity of wood specimens recovered from their study sites.

Explains wood anatomist Dr. Ramiro P. Escobin, “Our clients are mostly researchers from the National Museum and the University of the Philippines Archaeological Studies Program who bring to us for identification either charred, desiccated, or waterlogged wooden artifacts.”

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For his continued commitment to improve weather forecasting capability in the country and to instill the value of disaster risk reduction and management, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario G. Montejo was conferred the Wind Vane Awards by the DOST-Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) recently at the PAGASA Main Office Building.