DOST-FPRDI champions earth-friendly technologies
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Because of its name, the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) – is sometimes misunderstood as being anti-environment. Some people think that the agency’s mandate promotes deforestation, the alleged culprit behind the devastating floods that hit the country in 2020.
DOST-FPRDI preserves priceless wood samples thru digitization
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Treasures come in many forms and sizes.
For the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI), a “treasure” may be an assortment of wood blocks that for many years now have been contributing to archaeology, the wood-using industries, and the country’s anti-illegal logging campaign. The oldest of these blocks is 117 years old.
DOST-FPRDI presents bamboo technologies to lawmakers
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Members of the country’s House of Representatives (HOR) recently learned about bamboo-based technologies that could possibly benefit their constituents.
This, as the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) recently held its 1st Virtual Technology Forum (VTF) with the help of the HOR’s Committee on Science and Technology and DOST’s Legislative Liaison Office.