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Innovative Tissue Culture Laboratory (iLAB) for
Ornamental Plants
The Municipality of Guiguinto still considers agriculture as one of its primary source of livelihood, wherein the horticulture business is well-known, in particular the propagation and business of ornamental plants for landscape purposes. Currently, there are eighty six (86) registered garden plant farmers in Guiguinto, most of which are members of the Garden City Multipurpose Cooperative. Seeing the great potential of ornamental plant farming, the municipal government of Guiguinto greatly supports the promotion of the ornamental plant business and envisions to establish the whole municipality into the Garden Capital of the Philippines by the year 2025
Currently, the ornamental plant farmers in Guiguinto employ conventional farm practices such as cuttings, marcotting and grafting. However, such conventional practices have high mortality rates of transplants and may not be applicable for propagating some ornamental plant species. Currently, the ornamental plant farmers are having difficulties propagating some ornamental plants such as Bucida spinosa, Cypress plant (Cupressus family), Creeping Jennifer (Lysimachia nummularia), Ornamental Legumes (Caesalpinioidae, Mimosoidae, Faboideae), among others. In order to help solve this problem, LGU Guiguinto collaborated with the Department of Science and Technology Region 3 for a project which aims to provide technical assistance to the ornamental plant farmers in the Municipality of Guiguinto through the establishment of a tissue culture laboratory intended for the propagation of ornamental plants. To wit:
a) Quick generation of identical mature offspring of one plant with desirable traits, which is applicable for commercial large-scale production of plants;
b) Production of multiple plants in the absence of seeds or pollinators to produce seeds;
c) Production of plants from seeds or stems that may otherwise have low chances of growing;
d) Production of novel hybrids and genetically modified plants with improved agronomic traits; and,
e) Production of plants with greatly reduced chances of transmitting disease, pests and pathogens.
The collaborative project of DOST 3 and LGU Guiguinto, entitled “Development of the Gardening and Landscaping Industry of Guiguinto, Bulacan thru the Establishment of an Innovative Tissue Culture Laboratory (iLAB) for Sustainable Propragation of Various Ornamental Plants”, aims to provide technical assistance to the ornamental plant farmers in the municipality of Guiguinto through the establishment of a tissue culture laboratory intended for the production and propagation of ornamental plants. The plant tissue culture laboratory will supplement the propagation of ornamental plants by the farmers when they require large scale production of ornamental plants. The project has been approved for funding under the Grants-in-Aid (GIA) program of DOST 3 last September 13, 2019, and a Memorandum of Agreement has been signed between DOST 3 and LGU Guiguinto.
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“integrated pests management” or IPM
on rice.
Isa sa pangunahing humahadlang sa pagsasaka ng palay sa maraming bansa sa Asya, kabilang ang Pilipinas ay ang mga rice planthoppers gaya ng brown planthopper o BPH, small brown planthopper o SBPH, at white-backed planthopper o WBPH. Base sa mga pag-aaral, ang white-backed planthopper ay nagdadala ng virus na tinatawag na Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus o SRBSDV, mas kilala sa tawag na RBSDV-2. Sinasabing nagdudulot ito ng malaking danyos sa maraming bansang nagtatanim ng palay sa Asya.
Sa tulong ng Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative o AFACI, nasimulan ng isang grupo ng mga mananaliksik mula sa Philippine Rice Research Institute o PhilRice at sa pangunguna ni Dr. Genaro Rillon ang pag-aaral sa IPM o ang Integrated Pest Management na kaugnay sa pagresolba sa problemang hatid ng mga rice planthoppers at virus na tangan nito.
Base sa resulta ng mga pag-aaral, taong 2010, tinatayang 6000 ektarya ng palay sa Iloilo ang naapektohan dulot ng mga planthoppers.
Nagkaroon ng proyektong “Construction of Epidemiology Information Interchange System for Migratory Disease and Insect Pests in Asia Region: Assessment of Rice Planthoppers Populations and Viruses in the Philippines” na naglalayong mabawasan ang pag-atake ng mga peste gaya ng rice planthoppers sa mga palay na siyang dahilan ng pagkalugi ng maraming magsasaka sa Pilipinas.
Nagpasimula ang PhilRice, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija na magpatupad ng monitoring system na sinimulan noong taong 2014 hanggang buwan ng Hunyo taong 2016. Base sa resulta nito, tumaas ang populasyon ng brown planthoppers simula 2014 hanggang 2016. Tinatayang tumaas ng 1.09% noong 2015 at nadagdagan ng 7.38% noong 2016. Samantalang umabot ng 3.47% ang nadagdag sa bilang white-backed planthoppers noong 2016.
Noong 2016, panahon ng tagtuyot, nagkaroon ng 10 hanggang 15 porsyento ng hopperburn ang mahigit 2000 ektaryang pananim sa Nueva Ecija dulot ng mga planthoppers.
Sinasabi na ang sobrang paggamit ng insecticides, synthetic fertilizer at pabago-bagong paraan ng pagtatanim ang naging dahilan sa paglobo ng bilang ng mga planthoppers sa bansa.
Para sa karagdagang impormasyon ukol sa rice planthoppers, maaaring makipag-ugnayan kay Dr. Genaro S. Rillon sa numerong 0-4-4-4-5-6-0-2-7-7 o magpadala ng mensahe sa kanyang email na gsrillon@philrice.gov.ph (g-s ril-lon at phil-rice dot gov dot p-h).
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