March 17 – The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council Agriculture, Aquaculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD)-funded research program, Smarter Approaches to Reinvigorate Agriculture as an Industry in the Philippines (Project SARAI) held its first UPLB-based seminar-exhibit, at ICOPED Auditorium, CEM.

The seminar-exhibit was composed of a short presentation of the program and its current outputs, and was followed by an open house. The open house was for the exhibit of the program’s technologies and systems which all pave way to a more productive and more resilient agriculture sector. UPLB students and other researchers attended the said event.

Project SARAI will conduct also a seminar-exhibit series this coming April in the different colleges – College of Agriculture (CA), College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT), and School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM). (Heidi D. Mendoza)