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More news: BAR reviews 18 projects under SASP

April 1999

EIGHTEEN projects nmded under the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Project (SASP) were reviewed on March 15-16 in La Trinidad, Benguet.

SASP focuses on sustainability and environmental concerns.

SASP aims to address environmental concerns and emphasizes sustainability along with productivity, equity, and production efficiency as important goals of agricultural R&D. Its funding is derived from the National Agricultural and Fishery Council.

The Bureau of Agricultural Research organized the review to assess the projects' efficiency and effectiveness before SASP ends in April this year. Projects were grouped into two categories and presented in two sessions conducted simultaneously, each session having its own panel of experts as reviewers.

The first panel, which evaluated projects under the Crops/Farming Systems/Conservation category, was composed of Dr. Zenaida Ganga, director of Highland Agricultural Resources Research and Development Consortium; Dr. Wilfredo David, professor at the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB); and Luis Rey Velasco, director of the National Crop Protection Center.

The second panel, which evaluated projects under the Livestock/Social-Institutional R&D category, was composed of Dr. Ernesto Rigor, UPLB professor: Dr. Agnes Rola of the Center for Policy Development Studies: and Dr. Darlyn Tagarino of Benguet State University.

After the sessions the evaluators observed that some of the projects could help farmers increase their productivity, notably the sweet potato project that achieved a yield of 27 tons/ha. Other projects however were found to have a weak conceptual framework resulting to dissonance between the projects' activities and objectives. Moreover, most of the projects lacked the economic analysis that could have determined the technology's profitability to the end-users.

Six project leaders who failed to present their projects during the March evaluation were required to submit their papers to the panelists for review.

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