IRRI, in partnership with the HealthServ Medical Center, and the Municipality of Los Baños provided free medical service for residents of Los Baños who are 60 and over.One hundred fifty seniors from 14 barangays received free medicine, vitamins, laboratory tests (urinalysis, bone scanning, cholesterol scanning, and random blood sampling), and health care counseling from...
Monthly Archives: November 2015
IRRI, through its partnerships and transport offices, turned over three vehicles to the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR) and a car to the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).DA-BAR Administrative and Finance Division Head Roberto S. Quing, Jr. and PhilRice Acting Branch Director Diego Ramos visited IRRI to accept the vehicles....
Agricultural extension workers (AEWs) who help in the delivery of research results to farmers were trained to use different knowledge resources in rice farming in a seminar held at the Provincial Capitol of La Union, San Fernando City on 3 November 2015.IRRI Training Center’s Lauro Atienza gave a presentation on the Rice Knowledge Bank (RKB) and Rice Doctor (RD). RKB...
The Young Researchers' Lunch for October hosted Robert Zeigler. Zeigler has been the director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for the last 10+ years—the second longest tenure after Robert Chandler. As DG, he sets the institute’s strategic direction and he has also been a passionate spokesperson on a wide range of issues that affect rice...
