DOST-FPRDI and DENR-ERDB host PBIDC Meeting
April 08, 2015

Photo courtesy of DENR-ERDB (Ms. Ivy V. Belenia).

(Top photo) Some representatives of member agencies of the Philippines Bamboo Industry Development Council (PBIDC) pose under a grove of bamboos at the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau’s (ERDB) Los Baños Experiment Station Bambusetum. The PBIDC team visited the bambusetum as part of their Executive Committee meeting agenda last 20 March 2015.

Hosted by the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB), the meeting was presided by FPRDI Director Romulo T. Aggangan (bottom photo, right) and was attended by representatives from the following organizations:

DENR-ERDB
Philippine Bamboo Foundation, Inc. (PBFI)
DTI-Design Center of the Philippines (DCP)
Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA)
National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)
DTI-National Capital Region Office (Cottage Industry Technology Center)
DTI-Regional Operations Group
DOLE-National Wages and Productivity Commission
DTI-Region 3
Office of Senator Bam Aquino

The PBIDC was created by the Executive Order 879 in 2010 "to provide policy and program directions for the stakeholders of the fast developing bamboo industry." E.O. 879 also directs the use of bamboo for at least 25% of desk and other furniture requirements of public elementary and secondary schools, and to prioritize its use in furniture, fixtures and other construction requirements of government facilities. (Maybell Mariella A. Amador, 6 April 2015)#