Color sorter technology increases rice productivity for rice traders
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The color sorter technology for rice has really paved the way for increased productivity of our current facility,” said Leonard M. Garcia who started his rice mill business with his wife on January 20, 2005. “Before the intervention of the Department of Science and Technology, we were able to produce 40 percent good quality commercial rice and the other 60 percent graded as ‘slight’ by rice traders,“ he quipped.
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DOST boosts nano filters production to help supply safe water in typhoon-hit areas
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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is ramping up the production of low-cost ceramic water filter to be distributed to the typhoon-affected families in Leyte province.
The effort is part of the DOST-wide relief project for Visayas is dubbed “Sulong Tabang” or S&T sa Visayas. Tabang is the Visayan word for “help.”
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Cine Bioteknolohiya shows biotech uses in everyday life
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Science advocates have tapped the universal medium of film to communicate the advantages of biotechnology as the new short film competition Cine Bioteknolohiya 2013 handed out its first awards during the recently concluded National Biotechnology Week (NBW).
Dr. Virginia N. Enriquez of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCIEERD) and one of the contest judges, believes film is a powerful strategy for spreading the good news about biotechnology. “If you have visuals, these create a different kind of impact on the audience. In a way, it integrates information into people’s everyday sense of things, making them realize that technology or science is not far from the human experience,” Dr. Enriquez explained.
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UPLB prof-scientist gets 2013 DOST award on molecular research
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In celebration of its 80th Foundation Anniversary on December 8, 2013, the DOST National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) named Dr. Joseph R. Cumagun, a Professor 6 and Scientist II from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, as the 2013 Dr. Eusebio Y. Garcia Awardee for his exceptional researches in molecular biology and plant pathology.
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