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Graduate School<font size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">VPAPEL attends workshop on biofuels dev’t in Southeast, East Asia</span></font>
DR. HERALDO L. Layaoen, vice president for planning, development, and external linkages and overall coordinator for sweet sorghum and pigeonpea projects, attended a workshop on policy issues and research agenda on biofuels development in Southeast and East Asia, Oct. 7-8, at the Renaisssance Hotel in Makati City.
This was sponsored by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture and the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy together with the International Development Research Centre of Canada and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
The workshop aimed to bring together key stakeholders in energy development to discuss a systematic and research-based impact assessment initiative on biofuel development in the region including China. Specifically, the discussions were aimed at identifying key policy issues and agenda for research; coming up with An overall framework for the impact assessment study; and establishing the regional and country teams in the selected Southeast Asian countries that would undertake the assessment study.
Resource speakers presented regional and global perspectives in biofuels development as well as country papers on the prospects of national biofuel initiatives. At the end of the workshop, the organizers incorporated country inputs in the development of a proposal on the “Effects of emerging biofuels on agricultural development, food security, poverty, and the environment: With specific focus on Southeast Asia and China”.
The rising concerns over energy security and the environment have moved governments to aggressively encourage biofuel production. Current biofuel technologies use agricultural feedstocks such as grains and sugar for ethanol and rapeseed and palm oil for biodiesel. Brazil mandates boifuel consumption and uses abut half its sugar cane to produce ethanol. The United States (US) has tax incentives, subsidies, and consumption mandates for biofuel production. At the current pace of investment, the US is planned to produce 15 billion gallons of biofuel by 2010. This means that between one-quarter and one-half of the current US maize crop will be used as feedstock. Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand and many other developed and developing countries also have their own plans to expand the production of ethanol and biodiesel.
In the Philippines, efforts have been done to promote large-scale use of alternative energy sources such as biofuels. This year, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed the Biofuels Act which promotes the production of ethanol as gasoline blend.
At MMSU, large-scale testing for sweet sorghum as an alternative feedstock for ethanol production has been going on. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India has collaborated with the university together with other national agencies such as DA-BAR, PCARRD, CHED, and NEDA-I for this national program with Dr. Layaoen as leader.
This was sponsored by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture and the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy together with the International Development Research Centre of Canada and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
The workshop aimed to bring together key stakeholders in energy development to discuss a systematic and research-based impact assessment initiative on biofuel development in the region including China. Specifically, the discussions were aimed at identifying key policy issues and agenda for research; coming up with An overall framework for the impact assessment study; and establishing the regional and country teams in the selected Southeast Asian countries that would undertake the assessment study.
Resource speakers presented regional and global perspectives in biofuels development as well as country papers on the prospects of national biofuel initiatives. At the end of the workshop, the organizers incorporated country inputs in the development of a proposal on the “Effects of emerging biofuels on agricultural development, food security, poverty, and the environment: With specific focus on Southeast Asia and China”.
The rising concerns over energy security and the environment have moved governments to aggressively encourage biofuel production. Current biofuel technologies use agricultural feedstocks such as grains and sugar for ethanol and rapeseed and palm oil for biodiesel. Brazil mandates boifuel consumption and uses abut half its sugar cane to produce ethanol. The United States (US) has tax incentives, subsidies, and consumption mandates for biofuel production. At the current pace of investment, the US is planned to produce 15 billion gallons of biofuel by 2010. This means that between one-quarter and one-half of the current US maize crop will be used as feedstock. Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand and many other developed and developing countries also have their own plans to expand the production of ethanol and biodiesel.
In the Philippines, efforts have been done to promote large-scale use of alternative energy sources such as biofuels. This year, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed the Biofuels Act which promotes the production of ethanol as gasoline blend.
At MMSU, large-scale testing for sweet sorghum as an alternative feedstock for ethanol production has been going on. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India has collaborated with the university together with other national agencies such as DA-BAR, PCARRD, CHED, and NEDA-I for this national program with Dr. Layaoen as leader.
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