Philippine agriculture is taking a hit from multiple fronts in the midst of the war waged by Russia in Ukraine. One of these is the shortage of and skyrocketing prices of fertilizers caused by the increase in oil prices and because 40% of the global requirement of fertilizers comes from...
It’s alive! Mykovam, the hardworking biofertilizer
Imagine that by applying a fertilizer once in a plant’s early life, it gets a major upgrade thereafter. Visualize little fungi helpers clinging to the plant’s roots to supply additional moisture and nutrients, in exchange for a share of plant sugars. This is the mechanism by which biofertilizer Mykovam works...
Use Bio N today, keep high farm costs away
Almost 40 years after its discovery, the Bio N biofertilizer of the UPLB-National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UPLB-BIOTECH) continues to ease the burdens of struggling farmers who have found it extremely difficult to keep up with the high prices of chemical fertilizers. Ricky Mabunga, a farmer-businessman in Isabela...
UPLB-BIOTECH’s Probiotics for Aquaculture are a fish farmer’s best friend
Known as good bacteria, probiotics have been proven beneficial to human health, the agriculture and fisheries, and various industries. A probiotics technology developed by the UPLB-National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UPLB-BIOTECH) has been helping fish farmers in Nueva Vizcaya improve and increase their yield. Eliazar B. De Guzman,...
UPLB-BIOTECH biofertilizers and technologies to boost urban agriculture in Cabuyao City
Cabuyao farmers will soon be able to use cost-effective and environment-friendly biofertilizers of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH) on their various crops. This was provided for in one of six partnership agreements that UPLB-BIOTECH and local executives of Cabuyao signed on March 17 to strengthen agricultural...
Dr. Rodney Perez, 2020 Outstanding Young Scientist
With the emergence of new pathogens including that which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is now a fact that the smallest known organisms and its nonliving components can change the world. The study of some of these important microorganisms is what 2020 National Academy of Science and...
UPLB scientist receives TOFIL Award
Dr. Nelly S. Aggangan, Scientist 1 of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH), was hailed as a recipient of the prestigious Nation Builder and Heroes Award by the Junior Chamber International Senate Philippines. She was one of six recipients honored at The Outstanding Filipino Awards of 2019,...
Dr. Nelly Aggangan: one of agriculture’s best
Dr. Nelly S. Aggangan began her career in 1980 as a research assistant at the UPLB National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH). She rose from the ranks and became one of the accomplished scientists in the university. On Dec. 2, she will receive an award that will again...
New BIOTECH facility to boost academe-industry partnership
“The capacity of BIOTECH as a premiere research and development institution continues to remain strong.” Thus, said Dr. Marilyn Brown, director of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH), as she opened its week-long 40th anniversary celebration on Nov. 18. Dr. Brown talked about the accomplishments of BIOTECH in...
BIOTECH researchers learn ways to increase research impact
Learnings from a collaboration by the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH) Library and the University Library is surely going to create more impact in the scientific community. At the seminar that the two units co-organized, entitled “Measuring and increasing your research impact: a library user education and...