With the theme of "The Wood of the Future is Grass--Bamboo," the 1st Regional Bamboo Forum hosted by the South Cotabato Bamboo Industry Development Council (SCBIDC) ushered for more collaborative efforts in assuring the development of the industry both for environmental protection and economic opportunities on November 23-24, 2011 at Koronadal City and Surallah, South Cotabato.
Building on the gains of the South Cotabato Bamboo Industry Forum on February 15-17, 2011, the regional gathering of more than 100 bamboo enthusiasts, advocates and concern government agencies bring into one table the most important and pressing concern in the development of the industry--production through nursery and plantation management.
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Building on the gains of the South Cotabato Bamboo Industry Forum on February 15-17, 2011, the regional gathering of more than 100 bamboo enthusiasts, advocates and concern government agencies bring into one table the most important and pressing concern in the development of the industry--production through nursery and plantation management.
Highlight of the forum is focused on plantation management and nursery production. Inputs on these were given by the Economic Research and Development Systems (ERDS) Team of Department of Environment Natural Resources (DENR) XII lead by Dr. Bighani Manipula.
Governor Arthur Y. Pingoy of South Cotabato said that the convergence of stakeholders is an important tool to comprehensively result to bigger impact. His issuance of EO 5 Series of 2011 creating the SCBIDC is a manifestation to the serious efforts of promoting bamboo.
Meanwhile, RD Socorro Ramos stressed NEDA's commitment of regional collaborative initiatives such as this effort. While the DepEd ushered for both supporting EO 879 requiring 20% of DepEd's chairs and desk be made of bamboo and also promoting bamboo in its environmental education campaign.
On its second day, November 23, 2011, the SCBIDC launched its model community nursery in Veterans, Surallah, South Cotabato. The community nursery will be adopted by DOLE Phils.
The forum is supported by Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP) of the Department of Trade and Industry and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Earlier on November 9, 2011, RuMEPP met with LGU Tampakan and SMI (Sagittarius Mines Inc.) on the proposed engineered bamboo development project for 2012. The LGU proposed project worth P 10 M hopes to ensure environment protection and economic opportunities for the communities of Tampakan.
PS: Special thanks to Jane, Fracel and the PEMO Family, DOLE Philippines, SMI, DOLE SC, DTI 12 (Son Manaois), RuMEPP Team/ Interns (Waren, Jeryl, Abie, Venus, and Julianne), LGUs of Region 12.
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