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Graduate School<font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"5\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">SEARCA grants $11, 500 for indigenous plants project</span></font>
THE SOUTHEAST Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) through its Seed Fund for Research and Training (SFRT) Grant for 2008-2009 awarded the university a research grant of US$11, 500 for the implementation of a research project proposal entitled “Survey and characterization of indigenous food plants in Ilocos Norte.â€
This is one of the eight proposals finally granted funding by the center after evaluating 47 proposals that came from six Southeast Asian countries. The grant was received by Menisa A. Antonio who represented MMSU during the awarding ceremonies held Nov. 27 at SEARCA, UPLB, College Laguna, in celebration of the center’s 42nd anniversary and international conference. Antonio is the main proponent of the said project.
The research proposal, co-authored by Dr. Epifania O. Agustin, then director for research now vice president for academic affairs, and engineer Rodel Utrera, intends to identify, characterize, and collect, indigenous edible plants in mountainous and remote towns of Ilocos Norte and propagate these.
Indigenous edible plants are traditional crops grown locally or gathered from the wild and consumed by people in that locality. Concern for the conservation and sustainable utilization of plant genetic resources has become one of MMSU’s considering these resources’ importance to many poor rural households. Based on reports, in Ilocos Norte alone, many rural households in remote barangays, especially in upland areas, have been observed to depend greatly on these indigenous edible plants for food. If these resources are left in their natural estate and are continuously being exploited, possible extinction of these may happen; thus, the research project.
The SFRT grant from SEARCA will usher the effective implementation of this research endeavor by MMSU. It is hoped that result of the study would pave the way for advocating and elucidating strategies for the conservation and sustainable utilization of Iluko indigenous edible plants.
This is one of the eight proposals finally granted funding by the center after evaluating 47 proposals that came from six Southeast Asian countries. The grant was received by Menisa A. Antonio who represented MMSU during the awarding ceremonies held Nov. 27 at SEARCA, UPLB, College Laguna, in celebration of the center’s 42nd anniversary and international conference. Antonio is the main proponent of the said project.
The research proposal, co-authored by Dr. Epifania O. Agustin, then director for research now vice president for academic affairs, and engineer Rodel Utrera, intends to identify, characterize, and collect, indigenous edible plants in mountainous and remote towns of Ilocos Norte and propagate these.
Indigenous edible plants are traditional crops grown locally or gathered from the wild and consumed by people in that locality. Concern for the conservation and sustainable utilization of plant genetic resources has become one of MMSU’s considering these resources’ importance to many poor rural households. Based on reports, in Ilocos Norte alone, many rural households in remote barangays, especially in upland areas, have been observed to depend greatly on these indigenous edible plants for food. If these resources are left in their natural estate and are continuously being exploited, possible extinction of these may happen; thus, the research project.
The SFRT grant from SEARCA will usher the effective implementation of this research endeavor by MMSU. It is hoped that result of the study would pave the way for advocating and elucidating strategies for the conservation and sustainable utilization of Iluko indigenous edible plants.
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