This blogger (Dr. Josue S. Falla) chairs the Philippine Rice Research Institute's (PhilRice) evaluation committee on 2010 Search for Best Paper (Technology Promotion and Increasing Yield category). The Search is in line with the 23rd National Rice R & D Conference which will be held at IRRI, Los Banos, Laguna on March 3 - 5, 2010. Other members of this Committee are Dr. Sol Mina-Roguel (Dean of CLSU Graduate School), Dr. Claire Aganon (CLSU Professor), fresh from Australian study Dr. Karen Barroga (PhilRice Techno-Promo officer), and Dir. Ruben Miranda (PhilRice Deputy Director for Development).
Four papers were initially evaluated dealing with SMS (aka Text messaging) and Web-Conferencing as agri-knowledge sharing tools; use of GIS for visualizing rice technology diffusion, and an exploratory study on Digital World among rice farmers. Elimination was done last Jan. 26, 2010 at PhilRice main headquarters in Maligaya, Munoz Science City, Nueva Ecija, while the finalist-papers shall be presented at the plenary session of the Conference proper on March 3-5 in IRRI, Laguna.
As posted in the past, this blogger (Dr. Falla) is due to retire from the government service come March 31, 2010 under Executive Order 366 (Rationalization Program). This kind of special (short-term) assignment is what this blogger is looking forward to as one of his main post-retirement activities for him to be of continuous service to the industry. (30)
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