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About Phil-Organic
History and Aim
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Philippine Organic Agriculture Information Network (Phil-Organic)
is an information service that provides accessible data/ information
to various stakeholders in the organic agriculture industry. Phil-Organic
aims to facilitate the exchange of information, expertise, and experience
in the field of organic agriculture among government, non-government
and research institutions, private |
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practitioners,
and other organic agriculture advocates.
The
establishment of Phil-Organic started when the participants of the consultation-workshop
held last December 2005 agreed to establish an information networking
arrangement that would help disseminate organic agriculture technologies
and provide market linkages among the consumers and producers. Phil-Organic
was launched during the Philippine Society of Soil Science and Technology
(PSSST) Symposium last June 1, 2006. The members of the network signed
the Memorandum of Agreement at PCARRD, Los Banos, Laguna last September
29, 2006.
The
approval of Executive Order 481 titled "Promotion and Development
of Organic Agriculture in the Philippines" last December 2005 further
strengthened the need for an information system for organic agriculture.
The implementing rules and regulations of EO 481, signed last August 2006,
specifies that the secretariat of the National Technical Committee and
the National Organic Agriculture Board, which is lodged with the Bureau
of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards and in collaboration with
PCARRD, shall serve as the data information center and shall integrate
and disseminate these data through electronic and other means to interested
stakeholders through the Phil-Organic Network. |
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