In a move to plot the Council’s plans, programs, and directions under the S&T (science and technology) Agenda (STA) and CorPlan (corporate plan) for 2011─2016, PCARRD’s Directors’ Council (DC) and selected senior staff congregated at the Summit Ridge Hotel in Tagaytay City to review its investments in S&T on agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
The review, led by Executive Director Patricio S. Faylon, looked at accomplishments of the Council in the last five years based on the STA adopted for the same duration.
Programs and projects funded and coordinated by PCARRD were assessed based on the Council’s four banner programs, namely: 1) knowledge and technology generation, 2) R&D results utilization, 3) R&D governance and capability building; and 4) policy analysis and advocacy.
Accomplishments for livestock, stemmed from projects on goat, dairy carabao, native chicken, and yellow feed grains. Those from crops arose from projects on fruits, peanut, and sweet potato.
For agricultural resources, projects on organic agriculture, sloping land management, and waste management were assessed while projects on bamboo, industrial tree plantations, and biofuels were weighed up under forestry and environment.
In socio-economics, impact assessments and supply chain studies for different focus commodities were presented. As well, future assessments were laid out.
To ensure that the foci identified for the Council are leveled with the country’s priorities, the DC discussed the National Research and Development Priorities Plan (NRDPP). Specifically, it sought to merge the Council’s priorities with the NRDPP and thus reinforce the Council’s new STA and Corplan.
Rounding out the assessment, technology transfer, and capability building were examined. As PCARRD’s major platform for technology transfer, the Techno Gabay Program accomplishments were presented. Future directions were then discussed in the light of the enactment of E.O. 801.
The directorate also mapped out the future directions of other technology transfer/commercialization programs such as the S&T-Based Farms and the TechnoMart Program. Finally, the course of the organization’s support programs like publications, human resource, management information system, and financial management was laid out.