SEARCA in the News

THE Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry (MoA) is preparing the requests for proposal (RFP) to determine the capabilities of a few companies to protect the nation's food supply. Its Minister Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub said the RFP will be tabled to the Cabinet for approval before interested companies are invited to participate. "We are preparing the RFP. Once it is completed, we will table it to the Cabinet to seek approval before we could present it to the interested parties," he said at the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute's (Mardi) 50th Celebration in Serdang, Selangor, yesterday. Salahuddin said… Read more

The following link will take you to INQUIRER.net: Briones: Make farming 'sexy' to young peoplehttps://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1184325/briones-make-farming-sexy-to-young-people… Read more

By The BusinessMirror Broader Look Team RIGHT from the get-go, experts had projected the opening up of the Philippine rice market as the gateway to a better life for Filipinos: lower staple prices leading to slower inflation and lesser hunger. Indeed, the liberalization of the country's rice industry allowed the unabated entry of cheaper imported staple. As figures released by the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) showed, about 1.614 million metric tons (MMT) of rice from seven countries entered the Philippine market, from March 5, when Republic Act 11203 (the rice trade liberalization law) took effect, to October 4. The… Read more

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna: Education Secretary Leonor Briones led on Monday the formal investiture ceremony installing Glenn Gregorio as the 11th director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) at the agency's headquarters here. As the head of Department of Education (DepEd), SEARCA's focal agency in the Philippines, Briones presided over the investiture ceremony of Gregorio, who assumed office in May. At present, Gregorio is an academician at the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) of the Philippines and professor at the Institute of Crop Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)-College… Read more

Family farms account for more than 90% of all farms worldwide and as such they play a critical role in food production. This was affirmed by Senator Cynthia A. Villar, Chair of the Philippine Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food in her keynote message at the 2nd National Small and Family Farmers/New and Beginning Farmers Conference hosted and co-organized by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) recently. “Family farms are truly key players for inclusive growth and rural development, as well as to our food-secure future,” she said. Held in partnership with MoCA… Read more

Los Baños, Laguna—The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture has honored Dr. Glenn B. Gregorio as its new director with a formal investiture ceremony on Monday at its headquarters here. SEARCA is one of the oldest specialist institutions of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization hosted by the Philippine government on the campus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. The institution was founded in 1966 to serve the agricultural and rural development needs of Southeast Asian countries through graduate education and training, research, and knowledge dissemination. Education Secretary Leonor M. Briones graced… Read more

Almost six months after Dr. Glenn B. Gregorio took the helm, the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) will honor him as its new Director with a formal investiture ceremony on 28 October 2019 at its headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. Hosted by the Philippine government on the campus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), SEARCA is one of the oldest specialist institutions of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). SEARCA was founded in 1966 to serve the agricultural and rural development needs of Southeast Asian countries through… Read more

Philippine-based Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) has formally installed Glenn B. Gregorio as its 11th director. Hosted by the Philippine government on the campus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), SEARCA is one of the oldest specialist institutions of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). SEARCA was founded in 1966 to serve the agricultural and rural development needs of Southeast Asian countries through graduate education and training, research, and knowledge dissemination. Gregorio assumed office in May 2019. He brings to SEARCA his wide experience from three decades of… Read more

"The reality of digitalizing agriculture is won or lost at the farmer level, where applicability and sustainability have to be tested," a top official of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) said. SEARCA director Glenn Gregorio said they were "working toward elevating the quality of life of farmers by improving their access to new, sustainable, resilient production technologies and systems and help them integrate with modern postharvest and logistics systems." Speaking before hundreds of scientists, researchers, and educators at the 25th Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines (FCSSP) and the 1st… Read more

One of the key issues confronting Philippine agriculture (and the rest of the world!) is to what extent organic agriculture should be pushed to replace the current mainstream agricultural practices, also collectively referred to, as conventional agriculture. This was the theme of the public consultation organized by the Coalition for Agriculture Modernization in the Philippines, Inc. (CAMP), the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD-DOST), and the Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB), College of Agriculture and Food Science held at UP Los… Read more