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BIOTECH products bag awards at Japan alumni conference

Two innovative BIOTECH products won awards and certificates at the 22nd Conference of the ASEAN Council of Japan Alumni (ASCOJA) held on Sept. 30–Oct. 2 at the E-City Hotel@One City in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.The agricultural product innovations presented by two Japan-trained BIOTECH researchers, Dr. Mannix S. Pedro and Dr. Marilyn B. Brown, "Bioorganic Fertilizers: Working with Microbes for Agricultural Production Sufficiency" and "Increasing Crop Productivity with Vesicular Asbuscular Mycorrhizal Root Inoculant (VAMRI)" won the ASCOJA invention award gold and silver medals, respectively.