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Meet Tech Gens on 04 February 2019 at the Crimson Hotel Filinvest City, Manila. Photo by DOST |
Agricultural
technologies find home in the regions
The Technology Application and Promotion
Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-TAPI) brought
together the technology generators and DOST Regional Offices to facilitate a
technology pitching on 04 February 2019 at the Crimson Hotel Filinvest City,
Manila.
The event, “ROs Meet Tech Gens,” is a
preparatory activity of the Technology Transfer Day which creates a venue to
fast-track the adoption and commercialization of DOST-funded and -generated
technologies.
A total of 21 technologies from the
Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and
Development (DOST-PCAARRD) and the Forest Products Research and Development
Institute (DOST-FPRDI) were presented during the event.
“We want our technologies to find home to
capable adoptors,” said DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development Rowena
Cristina L. Guevara.
Discussed in the event are the step-by-step
guide in technology transfer and adoption through the signing of the term
sheets, issuance of the Fairness Opinion Report, and signing of the Technology
Licensing Agreements.
Agricultural Machineries
Among the
technologies presented are machines for agricultural productivity including the
coffee depulper – helps reduce the
breakage of coffee cherries and attain high quality coffee beans, coffee moisture meter – provides
accurate results in determining the moisture content of coffee beans, peanut stripper – separates and sorts
the peanut pods from the vines, and peanut
sheller – separates and sorts the peanut kernels from the pods.
Innovative
Infrastructures
Included in the
offering are technological infrastructures for postharvest activities such as
the coffee dryer which provides a
drying alternative through a greenhouse-type solar dryer retrofitted with
biomass furnace for coffee beans, operating at low temperature without
electricity.
Moreover, the integrated postharvest facility for mango
includes an automated table sorter, wash tank, hot water treatment, industrial
fan, weight classifier, and table for packing.
Sustainable Nourishment
To ensure that
agricultural products attain their maximum potential, it is important that
their source has the optimal environment setting or nutritional status for
growth and development.
Pellet feeds are
bite-size pieces and nutritionally-balanced mixture of forage and grain
ingredients, which provides nourishment to goats.
The protein-enriched
copra meal (PECM) is the product of the bioprocessing of copra meal through
solid state fermentation to improve its nutritive value.
Hi-Yeast is a
yeast-based biocontrol agent (BCA) that prevents fruit and vegetable decay
caused by pathogens during postharvest handling. This technology is designed as
an alternative and/or supplement to reduce the use of chemicals in nature and
reduce the human health and environmental risks that comes with the use of
existing synthetic control agents.
Kakawate Fertilizer
is an organic liquid plant supplement used for improving the flowering and
fruiting of various plants including chili pepper, tomato, cucumber, eggplant,
and squash.
MicroMix is a
biostimulant composed of a consortium of bacteria that enhances the growth of
crops, particularly bell pepper and bittergourd. It was developed as a response
to the excessive use of costly chemical stimulants and fertilizers that
significantly increases crop production costs.
Fraud Prevention
The meat detection kit authenticates and
identifies various meats, and can be used by regulation agencies to prevent
frauds in the meat industry.
Useful Wastes
To reduce wastage
and environment impacts from byproducts, pineapple wastes are transformed into
useful products through the forms of molded
and briquetted coals for cooking, bran
as feed supplements for chicken and fowls, and multi-use marinade or meat tenderizing product for food processing
and other food preparation processes.
Forest Products
Forest products
were also presented for the direct consumption or commercial use of
stakeholders, such as the wine barrels
from santol, high-pressure sap displacement (HPSD) system to
force the bamboo sap out, do-it-yourself bamboo
shelter, kiln for the production
of bamboo charcoal, bamboo veneer lathe
is for varying thickness bamboo veneers production, non-wood dryer, and dryer with
heat facility for eliminating insect pests and disease-infesting wooden packaging
materials.
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