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DOST-FPRDI launches the Tesoro Research Chair Award
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It is now official
The DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI) highest recognition for its researchers will be named after Dr. Florentino O. Tesoro and his family. Dr. Tesoro is one of the Institute’s former Directors.
The Tesoro Research Chair Award will be given to FPRDI researchers and Career Scientists with exemplary performance in research and development, technical assistance, training and technical services.
Dr. Tesoro is a former DOST Undersecretary for Regional Operations, and DOST-FPRDI Director from 1983- 1990 and 1999- 2002. He also became an Assistant Director of the DENR-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (formerly Forest Research Institute) and a former faculty member at the UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources.
DOST-FPRDI develops moisture meter for bamboo and other non-timber forest products
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The DOST- Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI) moisture meter for bamboo is now out in the market.
The device was developed in collaboration with DOST- Advanced Science and Technology Institute and YONGDEN Technology, and was funded by the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD).
The FPRDI moisture meter is a handheld device that reads the amount of water present in non-timber products. It is especially calibrated for several bamboo species that are extensively planted in the country and are used for engineered bamboo. These include Kawayan Tinik (Bambusa blumeana J. A. & J. H. Schultes.); Giant Bamboo (Dendrocalamus asper (Schultes f.) Backer ex Heyne); and Botong (Dendrocalamus latiflorus Munro).
DOST-FPRDI sits as APAFRI ExeCom member
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The DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) has recently been elected member of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI) from 2021-2024.
The election happened during APAFRI’s 9th General Assembly on 7 December 2021 and attended virtually by 26 institutional members from 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
In a letter, the APAFRI Secretariat noted that with DOST-FPRDI’s “vast experience and knowledge”, the organization will “surely be able to achieve greater success.”
