Balanga City, Bataan—Bataan Peninsula State University is the pioneering university in smart farming research in the country, its leaders said over the weekend.
“We are starting it here in BPSU the smart farming research,” BPSU president Dr. Greg Rodis said.
Rodis, BPSU vice president for Research, Extension, and Training Services Dr. Hermogenes Paguia and Director for Research and Development Prof. Rod Munoz inspected the invented machines of the university for smart farming placed in a building at the BPSU Main Campus.
Early this year, the three BPSU officials, accompanied by Department of Science and Technology Regional Director Dr. Julius Ceasar Sicat, went to University of New England in New South Wales, Australia for the signing of the agreement for smart farming collaboration.
The agreement was signed by UNE, ICT International Australia, and BPSU.
Munoz said Dr. Peter Cull of ICT International visited BPSU last March to see the faculty and students’ agriculture-based, aquaculture-based, and biomedical-based research outputs.
The BPSU research director attended last month an international smart farming workshop in Thailand when he was chosen by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development, together with PCAARRD Deputy Executive Director for Research and Development Dr. Juanito Batalon, among other experts in the country.
Munoz said BPSU’s RDO is set to submit its smart farming project proposal for funding to PCAARRD. The proposal is in collaboration with UNE.