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The Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) has, from the start, been promoting sustainable and earth-friendly forest products technologies.

The DOST-FPRDI conducts studies on premium timber that aims to support the needs of the forest-using industries and it also began in the 1980s to study other related natural products. As the country’s wood supply began to dwindle due to reckless logging, the agency had to look for substitute raw materials for its clients in the housing, pulp and paper, handicrafts and furniture sectors.

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(Present in the signing were Dr. Elizabeth Quirino-Lahoz, TIP President, Dr. Rowena Cristina Guevara, DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development, Dr. Enrico C. Paringit, DOST-PCIEERD Executive Director, and Mr. Teddy Gervacio, Chief Executive Officer of Quicktrans Cargo Moving Inc.)

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The micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the CALABARZON region can now avail of the vacuum freeze dryer housed at the CALABARZON Food Solutions Hub (C-FoSH), a facility jointly managed by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in partnership with Laguna State Polytechnic University (LSPU), Association of Laguna Food Processors (ALAFOP), and co-funded by the Department of Science and Technology-CALABARZON.

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“Teenage pregnancy is unplanned, but not necessarily unwanted, and unplanned pregnancy means no regrets.”

These are some of the findings presented by Dr. Gloria Luz M. Nelson, Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines Los Baños, from the study of 18 teenagers from nine provinces in seven regions in the Philippines who are pregnant, mothers, or are both pregnant and are mothers at the same time, during the COVID 19 pandemic crisis.