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Lantapan launches packaging and bagsakan center, CapSU Dayao trains barangay residents on bangus deboning and PH tech transfer law highlighted in ASEAN IP workshop

Posted on January 12th By RGPadoginog, NOMCARRD, Niño Manaog with reports from Eduardo Navarra, CapSU RACE Rep/WESVARRDEC and Eduardo A. Genciagan, Jr., S&T Media Service

The Municipality of Lantapan, known as the vegetable basket of Bukidnon, recently launched its Municipal Packaging and Bagsakan Center (MPBC). The MPBC Project was implemented in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Central Mindanao University, Department of Trade and Industry—Bukidnon, and the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development or PCAARRD.

The project generally aims to cluster the vegetable farmers and capacitate them on proper farm management as well as management of their own bagsakan center. Specifically, it sought to encourage cluster members to adopt production and postharvest protocol to ensure quality and other farm management strategies such as production and delivery scheduling to improve profitability. It also aims to organize an integrated system of support services to nurture and ensure the growth and sustainability of the cluster-managed bagsakan center. In addition, the whole process (process documentation) of project implementation for purposes of future replications will be documented. Moreover, sustainability of project interventions will be ensured.

At the launch, Bayani Santos, Municipal Agriculture Officer of Lantapan, said that the farmers should be taught to practice organic farming to regain the fertility of the soil so that they can produce quality and chemical-free harvest. He emphasized that the farmers were the center of the project to help increase their income, link them with buyers, and teach them the value of volume and quality in packaging and selling of vegetables.

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Dr. Edna Nava, professor of CapSU’s fishery department, shared her know-how on bangus deboning. She guided Talon residents in performing the correct angles for incisions on bangus. Such correct procedures will make deboning easy and hassle-free. Stressing that “haste makes waste”, Nava encourages participants to take caution and practice restraint, which makes the skill more of an art. She was assisted by her colleagues in the training.

Incidentally, CapSu is a partner member agency of the Western Visayas Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium, one of the 14 regional research and development consortia of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development or PCAARRD.

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Makati City – The recently concluded Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Regional Seminar and Workshop on Intellectual Property Management and Technology Commercialization underscored the newly enacted Philippine technology transfer law.

Held on June 14-16 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the workshop was participated in by representatives, mostly from intellectual property (IP) offices, universities, and science and technology ministries from nine ASEAN-member countries.

Sponsored by USPTO in cooperation with the ASEAN Secretariat and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, the seminar aims to provide information and best practices on technology commercialization and licensing.

The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) Socio-Economics Research Division Director Albert P. Aquino presented the Philippine perspective on the topic “Importance of IP policy in promoting innovation in the ASEAN”, by sharing the country’s experience in the enactment of Republic Act No. 10055 or the Philippine Technology Transfer Act of 2009.

He also updated the participants on the implementation of the law, which involves sustained public awareness advocacy, capacity building, and monitoring framework.

The presentation, which was followed by an open forum, gave way to an exchange of information among the participants.

Aquino was chair of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-led Technical Working Committee on Technology Transfer Policy Advocacy, which was instrumental in advocating the passage of the law.

At present, DOST is pursuing a nationally coordinated public awareness campaign to promote the law and its implementing rules and regulations, alongside the crafting of the guidelines on IP valuation, commercialization, and information sharing.

Meanwhile, the seminar-workshop also provided the participants an opportunity to engage in the negotiation process. It also underlined the principle that commercialization of technologies should ultimately benefit public research and development institutions for greater national benefits.

Experts from the USPTO and technology licensing offices from the US also served as resource persons.

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