The 2008 National Research Symposium will be held on October
2 to 3, the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research has
announced.
NRS is an annual competition to promote research and
development excellence and give due recognition to outstanding researchers and
their work in agriculture and fisheries. It aims to identify and disseminate new
technologies and knowledge useful to agriculture and fisheries modernization.
"To encourage participation of researchers in the fields of
agriculture and fisheries, we will increase the cash incentives for this year’s
winners of the National Research Symposium," said Nicomedes Eleazar, BAR
director.
The competition categories are basic research, applied
research, development research, and socioeconomics.
Dr. Carmencita Kagaoan, BAR program development division head
and NRS lead organizer, said cash incentives for this year have been increased
by more than 50 percent.
She said the 2008 best R&D paper will receive P50,000 (from
last year’s P20,000) and a trophy. The first and second runners-up will get
P30,000 and P20,000, respectively.
Qualifiers also get a cash prize of P7,000. Qualifiers are
papers that garner the average point score of 80 percent and above.
"We would like to embolden the spirits of our researchers/ scientists in the
field and encourage them not only to conduct more relevant studies that will
generate new technologies for the agriculture and fishery sector but more
important, for them to join and present these new findings to the public,"
Eleazar said.
