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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.

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.

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.