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“People need to believe in local technology and not be biased against it,” says Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo, who has been advocating the importance of developing the local science and technology industry throughout his career as an engineer and inventor.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096989 [AuthorName] => Ida Anita Q. del Mundo [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 595259 [Title] => The President's Men and Women: DOST chief tapped as problem solver [Summary] =>

The newly appointed science and technology secretary intends to use his training and experience as an inventor and engineer to solve some of the country’s recurring problems like floods and traffic.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3712/sfthumbe.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329404 [Title] => Pilot develops tea for plants [Summary] => This tea is not for people.

It’s for plants, as its name vermicompost tea or vermi tea, suggests.

And doubly interesting is that its inventor is not a full-time member of the science world, as he flies commercial airplanes for a living.

In his free time, however, Capt. James "Bong" Reamon is on his two-hectare farm in General Santos City in Mindanao.

As early as two decades ago, Reamon, now 51, had crafted a windmill that had won prestigious awards – among them as invention of the year in 1984.
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The technology was generated by researchers of the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI), a DOST agency headed by Director Carlos Tomboc. It placed second in the Likha Award (Creative Research category) in the 2002 National Invention Contest.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Summary] => 

“People need to believe in local technology and not be biased against it,” says Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo, who has been advocating the importance of developing the local science and technology industry throughout his career as an engineer and inventor.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096989 [AuthorName] => Ida Anita Q. del Mundo [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 595259 [Title] => The President's Men and Women: DOST chief tapped as problem solver [Summary] =>

The newly appointed science and technology secretary intends to use his training and experience as an inventor and engineer to solve some of the country’s recurring problems like floods and traffic.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3712/sfthumbe.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329404 [Title] => Pilot develops tea for plants [Summary] => This tea is not for people.

It’s for plants, as its name vermicompost tea or vermi tea, suggests.

And doubly interesting is that its inventor is not a full-time member of the science world, as he flies commercial airplanes for a living.

In his free time, however, Capt. James "Bong" Reamon is on his two-hectare farm in General Santos City in Mindanao.

As early as two decades ago, Reamon, now 51, had crafted a windmill that had won prestigious awards – among them as invention of the year in 1984.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216721 [Title] => Technology for treating abaca fiber developed [Summary] => A technology that combines mechanical and chemical treatments of abaca fibers to make the strands suitable for cotton spinning has been developed.

The technology was generated by researchers of the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI), a DOST agency headed by Director Carlos Tomboc. It placed second in the Likha Award (Creative Research category) in the 2002 National Invention Contest.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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