The
Philippines
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' Bureau of Plant Industry, ( fil, Kawanihan ng Industriya sa Paghahalaman,
abbreviated as BPI) is an agency of the Philippine government under the
Department of Agriculture responsible for serving and supporting the
Philippine
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
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plant industry sector.
History
On January 1, 1930, by virtue of ''Act 3639'' of the
Philippine Legislature
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, the Bureau of Agriculture was split to the
Bureau of Animal Industry
President Chester A. Arthur signed the Animal Industry Act23 STAT 31 on May 29, 1884 creating the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), an organization that was established under the United States Department of Agriculture. It replaced the Veterinary Di ...
and Bureau of Plant Industry. The said Act defined the powers and functions of the two agencies. The Bureau of Animal Industry taking over all activities concerning animals, animal diseases, and industrialization of animal products and the Bureau of Plant Industry taking over the tasks on plant research and crop production.
As created through series of laws, Executive and Administrative Orders, BPI has the primary tasks of:
*Promoting the development of plant industries through research and development;
*Crop production,
*Crop protection, and
*Effective technology promotion and transfer.
Through ''Executive Order 116'' of
President
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Automobiles
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Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...
on January 30, 1987, BPI was reorganized to become a staff bureau under the production group of the renamed
Department of Agriculture.
On December 15, 2000, the Bureau of Plant Industry under the leadership of Atty. BLO Umpar Adiong, was certified as
ISO 9002 and considered as having a world class management system.
In 2014, Assistant Secretary Paz J. Benavidez II of the Department of Agriculture was named OIC Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry. She replaced Director Clarito Barron.
References
External links
Bureau of Plant Industry Philippines homepage
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Department of Agriculture (Philippines)
Research institutes in Metro Manila