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Text Center responds to more than 70,000 queries |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
The Farmers’ Text Center (FTC) based at Philippine Rice Research Institute, answered a total of 72,611 text messages from 2006 to 2009 with an average of 50 texts per day enhancing the delivery of agricultural information to farmers and extension workers, a study revealed.
Stoix Nebin Pascua, lead author of the paper titled, Enhancing Knowledge Networking through Short Messaging Service: The Farmers’ Text Center Experience of the Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture (OpAPA), said the results show the importance of short messaging service (SMS) in the delivery of agriculture information. |
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PhilRice newly conferred Scientist I takes oath |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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 Dr. Sergio Francisco, PhilRice socio-economist, took oath as Scientist I at Sulo Hotel, Quezon City, May 6, after his conferment by the Philippine Scientific Career Council (PSCC) November last year.
Francisco was qualified as Scientist I for publishing several international and local refereed papers, ISI-indexed papers, and technology bulletins on ex-ante and ex-post impact and policy evaluation.
Moreover, his study on the Resource Allocation Tradeoffs in Manila’s Peri-Urban Vegetable Production Systems: An Application of Multiple Objective programming published in the international ISI-indexed Agricultural Systems Journal contributed to his qualification.
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