The Department of Agriculture (DA) Bureau of Plant Industry-Los Baños National Crop Research, Development, and Production Support Center (BPI-LBNCRDPSC) celebrates its 91st anniversary with the theme, “BPI-Los Baños: Siyamnapu’t Isang Taong Nagbabahagi ng Kaalaman at Teknolohiya Tungo sa Paglago at Pag-unlad ng Paghahalaman.”
DA Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban commended the Center for its achievements and service to the Filipino farmers and consumers in the last nine decades.
“As we celebrate BPI-Los Baños at 91, we are also taking on the challenge of self-sustainability and food security in agriculture. One that I am confident the BPI-Los Baños will take on with the same amount of hard work and dedication it has displayed for the last 91 years,” Undersecretary Panganiban said during the celebration on November 23, 2022.
DA-BPI Director Gerald Glenn Panganiban, DA-BPI Assistant Director Herminigilda Gabertan, and DA-Calabarzon Regional Field Office Director Milo Delos Reyes also joined the event and expressed their support to the BPI-LBNCRDPSC led by Center Chief Flora Jarilla. ### (photos by Gian Carlo Luague, DA-AFID)