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Graduate School<font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"5\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">MMSU is Panibagong Paraan 2008 winner</span></font>
THE UNIVERSITY’S proposal on sweet sorghum for food, feed, forage, and fuel (bioethanol) as a substitute crop for tobacco won in this year’s edition of Panibagong Paraan, particularly in the Panibagong Paraan sa Puerto Princesa Award.
The Philippine Development Innovation Marketplace competition held every two years since 2004 opened its two-day exhibit on April 9 at the Megatrade Halls of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City featuring the project proposal of MMSU and 98 other finalists of the contest. Funding grants of up to P1-M were awarded to 30 winning new and innovative ideas anchored on the theme \"Building partnerships for effective local governance\".
Panibagong Paraan is a unique bazaar of innovative ideas that provide solutions to the most pressing social and economic concerns of the country; ideas that deliver results and have the potential to be expanded or replaced.
More than 500 entries were submitted when the competition was announced in November 2007. Of this number, 99 finalists from all over the country were selected based on the following criteria: innovativeness, development results; partnership, and sustainability/replicability.
The university’s proposal was chosen, along with 10 others, for the Panibagong Paraan sa Puerto Princesa Award courtesy of the City Government of Puerto Princesa under the leadership of Mayor Edward Hagedorn. This is a special award category for finalists ranked highly by the jurors but have not been awarded project grants due to funding constraints. The award entitles the university to send two representatives to Puerto Princesa to share knowledge and experience with development practitioners and local government executives there. The Puerto Princesa City Government will shoulder the cost of travel and accommodation for each representative.
Dubbed \"Sweet sorghum for food, feed, forage, and fuel (bioethanol) as a substitute crop for tobacco\", the MMSU project aims to address the concern on the dislocation of tobacco farmers due to the global campaign against smoking. It introduces an integrative approach by providing the tobacco growing community with a livelihood program anchored on agriculture. Product market assistance will make the project viable.
The introduction of sustainable agricultural production addressing the concerns of food, feed, forage and biofuel will empower barangay residents to attain a degree of economic independence and will ultimately lead to good local governance.
Sweet sorghum is drought tolerant and a very efficient converter of solar energy into to biomass for food, feed, forage, and biofuel. The crop will create employment opportunities because it will catalyze rural food processing. The project is in line with the existing program of the LGU to establish a balanced and sustainable agricultural system that does not pose a grave threat to the environment.
The involvement of the academe, the LGUs, the private sector in the industry and energy groups, and the farmers themselves will strengthen the sustainability of the project. Close cooperation and linkaging will be pursued to facilitate project implementation. The project will be sustained because the fundamentals for sustainability will be eventually established. The development of market for products will be a crucial component towards sustainability. Scaling-up will be easier because the basic support systems (i.e., presence of small postharvest tools and a bioethanol still) will be in place.
The project can be replicated in other tobacco growing areas of similar conditions because the project concept and implementation can be easily transferred.
According to engineer Samuel S. Franco, associate professor and scientist who drafted the proposal, the World Bank appreciated the project and sent a representative of the jury to talk to him before the awarding ceremony on April 10. The representative, according to Franco, said that the project ranked highly but there are \"development programs, indicators, and indices\" that guide them. As such, the judges decided that it be implemented in Puerto Princesa City instead in Sinait, Ilocos Sur where the proposal was originally intended. Franco said he has already made preliminary discussions about the project with Mayor Hagedorn.
The Philippine Development Innovation Marketplace competition held every two years since 2004 opened its two-day exhibit on April 9 at the Megatrade Halls of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City featuring the project proposal of MMSU and 98 other finalists of the contest. Funding grants of up to P1-M were awarded to 30 winning new and innovative ideas anchored on the theme \"Building partnerships for effective local governance\".
Panibagong Paraan is a unique bazaar of innovative ideas that provide solutions to the most pressing social and economic concerns of the country; ideas that deliver results and have the potential to be expanded or replaced.
More than 500 entries were submitted when the competition was announced in November 2007. Of this number, 99 finalists from all over the country were selected based on the following criteria: innovativeness, development results; partnership, and sustainability/replicability.
The university’s proposal was chosen, along with 10 others, for the Panibagong Paraan sa Puerto Princesa Award courtesy of the City Government of Puerto Princesa under the leadership of Mayor Edward Hagedorn. This is a special award category for finalists ranked highly by the jurors but have not been awarded project grants due to funding constraints. The award entitles the university to send two representatives to Puerto Princesa to share knowledge and experience with development practitioners and local government executives there. The Puerto Princesa City Government will shoulder the cost of travel and accommodation for each representative.
Dubbed \"Sweet sorghum for food, feed, forage, and fuel (bioethanol) as a substitute crop for tobacco\", the MMSU project aims to address the concern on the dislocation of tobacco farmers due to the global campaign against smoking. It introduces an integrative approach by providing the tobacco growing community with a livelihood program anchored on agriculture. Product market assistance will make the project viable.
The introduction of sustainable agricultural production addressing the concerns of food, feed, forage and biofuel will empower barangay residents to attain a degree of economic independence and will ultimately lead to good local governance.
Sweet sorghum is drought tolerant and a very efficient converter of solar energy into to biomass for food, feed, forage, and biofuel. The crop will create employment opportunities because it will catalyze rural food processing. The project is in line with the existing program of the LGU to establish a balanced and sustainable agricultural system that does not pose a grave threat to the environment.
The involvement of the academe, the LGUs, the private sector in the industry and energy groups, and the farmers themselves will strengthen the sustainability of the project. Close cooperation and linkaging will be pursued to facilitate project implementation. The project will be sustained because the fundamentals for sustainability will be eventually established. The development of market for products will be a crucial component towards sustainability. Scaling-up will be easier because the basic support systems (i.e., presence of small postharvest tools and a bioethanol still) will be in place.
The project can be replicated in other tobacco growing areas of similar conditions because the project concept and implementation can be easily transferred.
According to engineer Samuel S. Franco, associate professor and scientist who drafted the proposal, the World Bank appreciated the project and sent a representative of the jury to talk to him before the awarding ceremony on April 10. The representative, according to Franco, said that the project ranked highly but there are \"development programs, indicators, and indices\" that guide them. As such, the judges decided that it be implemented in Puerto Princesa City instead in Sinait, Ilocos Sur where the proposal was originally intended. Franco said he has already made preliminary discussions about the project with Mayor Hagedorn.
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