CapSU ethnobotanical dewormer featured in nat'l inventions exhibit

By Niño Manaog
Extension Associate

On July 21–25, 2014, the ethnobotanical team of CapSU Dumarao Satellite College composed of Dr. Bede Ozaraga, Dr. Ma Sylvia Inting Ozaraga and Dr. Maryneth Baticbatic Barrios brought the Capiz State University to the national limelight during the National Invention Contests and Exhibits 2014 at the SMX Convention Center at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City.

For three days, the CapSU team showcased the award-winning ethnobotanical dewormers originally produced for native chickens, an innovative technology tagged along with the nation's finest technologies and innovations. NICE 2014 brought all these advancements in science and technology as part of this year's celebration of the National Science and Technology Week (NSTW).

Dr. Maryneth Barrios answers queries from a walk-in visitor.

Previously in September 2013, CapSU's ethnobotanical team clinched the regional Likha (Creative Research) award conferred by the TechnologyApplication and Promotion Institute (TAPI) of the Department of Science and Technology. The group was led by Dr. Pedro Gavino, vice-president for research and extension, and supported by Engr. Ef Ren Linan, intellectual property director and Mr. Niño Manaog, university extension associate. In the same event, Manaog also joined the PCAARRD photo contest.

Dr. Sylvia Ozaraga, Dr. Bede Ozaraga and Dr. Maryneth Barriosbrought pride to CapSU with their award-winning ethnobotanical dewormer. 

Award-winning Research

DRASTIC FANTASTIC
Engr. Efren Linan (left), CapSU’s Intellectual Property director, hogs the limelight with Dr. Aladino Leccio (right), vice-president for Administration and Finance, after winning Best Paper Award for his study titled “DRASTIC Model and GIS-based Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability to Contamination in Boracay Island” during the ASEE 2014 International Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 1–3, 2014. The said study beat 36 other entries from around the world.(Niño Manaog/Extension Institute)

Jennifer Perez-Benliro, The Accomplished Advocate

By Niño Manaog

Extension Associate

Capiz State University

HAVE YOURSELF A JENNY LITTLE CHRISTMAS. Jennifer Perez Benliro follows the Santa Claus tradition of giving to fellow Yolanda victims days before Christmas. Here she helps dispense chocolate candies to some 250 kids in Sitio Baybay, Bgy. Natividad, Pilar, Capiz in December 2013.

“As a nurse, I took the oath of literally lending a hand to people. I also believe that I have the responsibility to do so,” says Jennifer Perez Benliro, Nurse II of the Capiz State University (CapSU) Pilar Campus who is profiled for Extension for this issue.

Born on July 10, 1972 in Pilar, Capiz, Benliro is a registered nurse who also holds a graduate degree in public administration. She has also started her doctoral studies in the same field. Currently, she is the extension chairperson of the Capiz State University (CapSU) Pilar Campus.

“Months after I started work at then Panay State Polytechnic College (PSPC) Pilar Campus, I organized the Red Cross Youth (RCY), a group of volunteers who were trained on first-aid services.” Since then, she has always been involved in extension activities of the campus helping and serving the underprivileged sectors of their community.

In various instances, she led the activities of RCY volunteers in conducting first-aid, and also assisted the activities of the Philippine Red Cross. In these activities, Benliro is inspired by the principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies—among them, voluntary service, impartiality and humanity.

Appointed chair of the health services from 2003 up to the present, Benliro has also served as the guidance counselor of the CapSU Pilar Campus since 2011.

For years, she has been Teen Center coordinator for CapSU Pilar, also holding several positions and capacities and helping facilitate medical services and advocacies that have not only engaged and catered to the youth but also helped uplift the welfare of the other sectors of the neighboring communities.

“I grew up surrounded by politicians and public officials mandated to cater to the needs of people; in the same setting I have come to love service for the public,” Benliro says, citing how the place where she lived has inspired her on what to do—or to keep doing what she has been doing.

A graduate of the PSPC High School in 1989, Jennifer Perez Benliro has been doing extension work since 1993, the year she graduated from college. In high school, she also served as regional public relations officer for the Future Farmers of the Philippines. She says that it was during this opportunity that she developed volunteerism and leadership.

“Such involvement and exposures contributed to my personal and professional growth, leading to the years in service which have motivated me to work harder for the University.”

Then after being appointed extension chair in 2011, Benliro’s conceptualized “Skills Development, Advocacy, Volunteerism and Empowerment (S.A.V.E.) Program on Health,” which reaches out to a number of sectors of the community and later benefited hundreds of constituents in Pilar, Capiz.

Three years into its launch, the program covered a big number of extension activities, namely: advocacy and health services and literacy trainings, first-aid services, feeding program, tooth extraction, Oplan Tsinelas, gift-giving, personality development training, blood sugar testing and blood pressure monitoring.

From the beginning, the volunteers consisted of students from the different departments who also composed the first aid team of the campus, supervised by Ms. Benliro.

“Engaging four fields of human activity and cooperation, namely: skills training, advocacy, volunteerism and empowerment, the S.A.V.E. Program is one extension agenda which seeks to make a difference in the communities where CapSU is located,” she says.

Originally intended for health advocacy via volunteerism, the program was later enhanced and expanded to include skills training, advocacy and empowerment of the sectors in the community. In fact, the program was enhanced and polished by CapSU’s RDE team—consisting of Dr. Marcela Buenvenida, Dr. Evelyn Borgonia, Dr. Guillermo Legada, Jr., Dr. Emelita Solante, and Dr. Cora Ferrer Navarra, then vice-president for Research, Development and Extension, who particularly advised her to include skills development in the project.

Among others, the program has instilled the spirit of volunteerism in the students. Sometimes even with scarce resources and faced with difficulties in reaching the target areas, student volunteers still supported the programs with their participation and initiative.

In recent months, the program also included skills development among the youth on the visual arts and other disciplines.  Through its varied activities since its beginnings, the program has taught youth participants that nothing could repay the happiness and contentment given by the opportunity of being able to help others.

During the 4th Regional Extension Symposium sponsored by the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) VI held in September 2013 at the Punta Villa Resort in Villa, Iloilo City, the S.A.V.E. Program was cited first runner-up in the Health Category. It also won first runner-up in Poster Category.

With this towering achievement both in the recognition by her peers and the benefit to the community, Benliro feels “fulfilled that through the little things—activities and involvements in the community—I am able to make it a bit better.”

Though I have not served as a nurse in the hospital, directly tending to the sick people and the patients, I feel that my involvement in the activities in the communities enabled me to help more people and make a difference.”

Having launched the S.A.V.E. Program in 2012, it is noteworthy to say that Benliro has broken new ground for CapSU—blazing the trail for others to follow.

The advocacy program she launched could serve as prototype for others, even as they are also mandated to make a difference in their respective communities.

“I believe that the advocacy I started in our campus will serve as an example to others,” she confides.

For now, Benliro only wishes that hazard pay be given to medical or public health workers of the university like her. She is also concerned about how CapSU’s extension programs can be effectively funded and sustained. For her, addressing these issues will reinforce the efforts of extension workers like her to be able to reach out to more people and even create more impact in the communities.

THE COMMUNITY NURSE
Jennifer Benliro takes to relief the fellow members of the community where they are coming from. As the community nurse, she makes sure that the health of basic sectors—from the children to the elderly—are literally kept in check.

Emelita Solante, The Mushroom Queen

Dr. Emelita Solante, director for extension at the Capiz State University (CapSU), presents her hanging oyster mushrooms at the Mushroom Training Center based in CapSU Burias Campus, Mambusao, Capiz. Funded since in 2011 by the Japan International Cooperating Agency under KR2 Fund through the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Region 6, the Mushroom Production and Extension Project has already benefited some farmer beneficiaries and entrepreneurs around the community. (Photo by Niño Manaog)

"To share what I know" is the credo of Dr. Emelita Pongcol Solante, the 53-year old Cebuana from Alburquerque, Bohol, who is currently the extension director of the Capiz State University (CapSU).

With such words, she describes her commitment to extension work even as she finds fulfilment from the fact that ordinary people would learn something from her in order to improve their lives.

Born on June 30, 1961, Solante finished Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Plant Protection in 1982 at the Visayas State College of Agriculture (ViSCA), now Visayas State University.

Shortly after college graduation, Solante worked as research assistant at the ViSCA, where she helped conduct the research on the Etiology of Stem Twisting Disease of Abaca.

And in June 1984, she came to Mambusao, Capiz to teach at the Panay State Polytechnic College (PSPC) Burias Campus, where she would teach for the rest of her life.

From 1990 to 1993, as a scholar of the International Rice Research Institute at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Dr. Solante’s thesis titled “Biological Control of Rice Blast” garnered 1.25 rating from the advisory panel.

From 1996 to 2000, Solante qualified for a Monbukagakusho Scholarship to study in Ehime University in Japan and in 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Agronomy at the CapSU Poblacion Mambusao Campus. Currently, she holds the position of Professor V with teaching load at the CapSU Burias Campus.

The road to Dr. Solante’s success in the professional ladder in the university was paved with simple intentions, so to speak.

Back in the early 1990s, during her doctoral studies at the University of the Philippines Los Banos, Solante was drawn to the work of Dr. Teresita Quimio, who was then in charge of the mushroom project in UPLB.

“I became curious of what she was doing inside the Mycology laboratory and later, I was inspired by her passion in culturing mushroom and producing them for food and business,” Solante says.

Dr. Emelita Solante has had a string of accomplishments in extension work through the years. From 1990 to 1993, she was part of the Municipal Science and Technology Advisory Program, which allowed her to work with a people’s organization in Ivisan, Capiz. Along with Dr. Cora Ferrer Navarra, who served as vice-president for research and extension, she also served as consultant for the farmers owing to her engagement in the biological control of rice blast.

Dr. Solante also shared her expertise in mushroom culture and production during the Uswag Info Caravans initiated by the Regional Applied Communication Group (RACG) of the Western Visayas Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium (WESVARRDEC). Initiated by then RAC Coordinator Cora Ferrer Navarra, these exposures also brought her to several towns of Capiz, Antique and Iloilo.

In 2011, she was named project-in-charge of the Mushroom Production Project of the Capiz State University. Funded by the Japan International Cooperating Agency under the Kennedy Round 2 (KR2) Fund channelled through the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Region 6, the Project seeks to increase the productivity of farmer beneficiaries and entrepreneurs around the community.

Since its launch, the project has produced oyster mushrooms to cater to the protein or health requirements of the community, while providing for the production needs of the farmer beneficiaries.

To date, the Mushroom Training Center has also trained at least 600 mushroom producers and 100 product entrepreneurs from around the community—even as the entire intervention has generated additional income for mushroom farmer-beneficiaries and product entrepreneurs.

Solante’s passion in the study of mushrooms did not stop in the culture and production of straw mushroom. While studying at the UPLB, she began culturing and producing oyster mushroom varieties and later shared her discoveries in her subsequent extension activities.

Then, more recently, Solante took on the task of experimenting with cooking the mushroom recipes which she integrated and adopted from popular culinary dishes, namely: mushroom siomai; mushroom achara (pickles); burger patties; crispy mushroom fries; CapSU Express (a la Bicol express) and mushroom lumpia.

More important, she has shared this technology to the household women of her locality. Under the Mushroom Production Project, household women and ordinary barangay folk are being trained on cooking mushroom recipes at the Mushroom Production and Training Center in CapSU Burias in Mambusao, Capiz.

For Dr. Solante, these community interventions “give them the realization that mushroom is not just an ordinary food—it can also be cooked and prepared for profit.” Solante also promotes the commodity not only because it is high in protein and a cost-effective meat substitute, which cannot only augment livelihood but also give health benefits to consumers.

Solante claims that all these involvements in extension work helped her overcome her own shyness and stage fright because she would speak in front of people from all walks of life.

For her, such involvements helped her enhance her communication skills owing to her participation in varied trainings and lectures on mushroom culture and production. These activities which were held across the province of Capiz and Iloilo also afforded her the opportunity to travel and see other localities in the region.

Looking ahead, Solante says that it is important that the University’s Extension agenda prioritize choosing and adopting depressed barangays where CapSU’s interventions can be poured in and implemented.

Per 4K, the extension agenda she submitted as her final paper for the Executive Course required by PASUC, CHED and Development Academy of the Philippines, each of the CapSU campuses will have one adopted barangay in their jurisdiction.

To begin with, she has short-listed the barangays of Pangpang Sur, Pangpang Norte, Liboo and Sinundujan—one of which will be the adopted barangay of the Extension Institute based in Poblacion Mambusao Campus.

For now, she has challenged herself to devise ways and approaches by which she can package the mushroom culture and make it appear practical and lucrative to the communities. As part of her prospective research, Solante is studying the social acceptability of mushroom culture and production among the poor and the middle-income classes. (Niño Manaog/Extension Associate)

Gavino, R& E directors lead monitor visits in Pilar, Pontevedra

By Niño Manaog

Extension Associate 

Capiz State University 

ROXAS CITY—Recently the Office of the Vice-President for Research & Extension (RDE) of the Capiz State University (CapSU) led by newly appointed vice-president for RDE, Dr. Pedro Gavino led the monitoring and evaluation team in CapSU’s two campuses.

On June 26, Gavino brought the RDEC team to the Pilar Campus in Brgy. Natividad, Pilar, Capiz headed by Dr. Marcela Buenvenida, campus administrator. She is backed by Dr. Evelyn Borgonia, research chair and Miss Jennifer Benliro, extension chair.

Then on July 3, 2014, Gavino, assisted by Dr. Guillermo Legada, Jr. and Dr. Emelita Solante and the RDE staff also met with the Research and Extension Personnel of the Pontevedra in Bgy. Bailan, Pontevedra, Capiz. The Pontevedra Campus is headed by Dr. Briddo Dorado, campus administrator, supported by Dr. Jocelyn Dagudag, research chair and Ms. Elisa Delmindo, chair for extension. 

For both visits, Gavino presented the priorities of RDE under his leadership. Meeting with all the RDE personnel, Gavino stressed the need to submit their accomplishment reports every quarter. He also encouraged them to properly document their accomplishments which will best account for the performance of the University.

For his part, Dr. Guillermo Legada, Jr., research director, presented CAPIZ PEARL (which stands for Collaborative Action toward Progressive and Inclusive Zonal Development through Productive Environmental and Agri-Industrial Research Leadership), which bares the research agenda for the university from 2014 onwards.  Dr. Emelita Solante, Extension director, meanwhile, presented 4K (which stands for Kabataan, Kababaihan, Kalikasan and Kabuhayan), which articulates the extension agenda she drafted for CapSU from 2014 onwards. Through the assistance of then VP for RDE Cora Ferrer Navarra, both agenda were drafted as final requirements in the executive and management course they completed under the auspices of the Development Academy of the Philippines early this year.

Further, Engr. Efren Linan, the newly appointed Intellectual Property (IP) director of the University, joined the Pontevedra visit. 

Among others, Linan proposed a policy that an IP chair be assigned or designated for every campus. Said policy can be added to the existing IP manual which is also set for revision anytime. 

The CapSU RDE leadership was supported by their staff, namely: Mr. Rector John Latoza, university research associate and Mr. Niño Manaog, university extension associate.

Persistence and Success in Research

Bede P. Ozaraga, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Dr. Ozaraga labels the package of his
dewormers prior to winning DOST's
creative research award in 2013.

Commitment, persistence, fulfilment, success—all these can be said about Dr. Bede Ozaraga, our profiled researcher for this issue.

Born on July 9, 1961 in Clarin, Misamis Occidental, Bede Pintacasi Ozaraga started employment at the then Panay State Polytechnic College (PSPC) in 1985. After obtaining Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Central Mindanao University in Bukidnon in 1984, he tried his luck at the PSPC in Burias, Mambusao, Capiz.

In 1992, this Cebuano who chose to work in Capiz would finish Master of Science in Animal Science at the PSPC Burias and would then be granted doctorate in Animal Science at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1999.

When asked why he became a veterinarian, Ozaraga says, “I have the desire to help those creatures who cannot help themselves, and this ardent desire to safeguard them from diseases.”

In his chosen endeavour, Ozaraga deems himself fortunate because “in my years as a veterinarian working in the academe, I have had opportunities to raise domestic and farm animals for productivity. In the same capacity, I have also had experience in the treatment and control of diseases of domestic animals.”

When the College of Veterinary Medicine was launched in PSPC Dumarao in 2002, doors opened for the said campus owing to the active efforts and expertise of Dr. Ozaraga. Per Board of Trustees Resolution No. 390, series of 1998, the PSPC College of Veterinary Medicine was launched as part of the roadmap to establish veterinary medical schools across the country. From 2002 to the present, he has served as the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the CapSU Dumarao Campus in Codingle, Dumarao, Capiz.

Back in 1991, Ozaraga took on the parasiticide studies which then formed part of the Science and Technology mandate of the government. The endeavor would later become ethnobotanical anthelmintic studies which he and his wife, Dr. Ma. Sylvia Inting Ozaraga—who works in the same institution—have pursued with persistence and dedication.

At CapSU, Dr. Ozaraga has been active in research through the years. His studies have seen publications in both local and national journals including the PSPC Journal which later became the CapSU Research Journal and the Philippine Journal of Veterinary & Animal Science.

He has also served as project leader in varied research studies, namely: Assessment of the Efficacy of Parasiticidal Plants in Controlling Internal and External Parasites of Livestock (1992) funded by the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricultural Research; Field Testing and Evaluation of the Formulated Natural Parasiticide againstLiverfluke and Other Helminths in Goats under the auspices of then Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) completed in 2004; and the “Production and Distribution of Ethnobotanical Anthelmintic for Free Range Native Chickens” granted by PCAARRD and completed in 2014.

And as if to highlight his achievement in these studies, the research team composed of Dr. Bede Ozaraga, Dr. Ma Sylvia Inting Ozaraga & Dr. Maryneth Baticbatic Barrios whose entry titled “Ethnobotanical Anthelmintic for Free Range Native Chickens” was declared the regional winner for Creative Research Category, or Likha Award during the 2013 Regional Invention Contests &  Exhibits (RICE) sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Technology Promotion and Application Institute (TAPI) at the Robinsons Place in Iloilo City. Ozaraga’s winning team was awarded a certificate, a plaque of recognition and cash prize by TAPI. The same study and its product has recently been granted utility model for Capiz State University.

Among others, the winning research noted how the contribution of the native chicken to the economy of rural farming communities has been well recognized though not properly quantified, citing that “the native chicken is not only an important source of high-quality protein food but also additional income for small farmers in these communities.” It also maintained that the prevalence of internal parasitism in native chickens and the increasing cost of commercial veterinary anthelmintics—worsened by their unavailability in the barangay level—dramatically reduce the potential of the native chicken in Western Visayas.

Further, the winning project promoted that “there is a need to utilize ethnobotanicals available in these communities” even as many ethnobotanical anthelmintics have been proven to contain potential constituents as cheap sources of anthelmintics to complement the commercially manufactured parasitic drugs against internal parasitism. For the winning team, using ethnobotanical dewormers can reduce the burden of intestinal parasites in free-range native chickens to tolerable levels.

For Ozaraga, research does not end in all these citations and forms of recognition. At the core of his efforts and even more so in his achievements, he says that he’d “like to help the ordinary folks and farmers in raising and taking care of their animals and also help them increase their productivity.”

For this campus administrator who has led the management of CapSU Dumarao Campus since 2010, extension work is the twin sister of research. All research is futile if their results cannot be utilized or do not serve the common good.

Ozaraga recalls that in previous years, he once worked for a team that led anti-rabies vaccination of some 3,000 domestic animals—dogs and cats—across the 26 barangays of Mambusao, Capiz. Said figure had been gradually achieved from 1987 through 1992 as part of PSPC’s extensionprogram at the time.

Asked about the benefits from working in CapSU, Ozaraga lists four gains, namely: professional advancement, financial security, spiritual growth and emotional quotient improvement. First, Ozaraga takes pride in having moved up the professional ladder owing to his engagement inresearch through the years.

Second, he thanks the institution for providing him financial stability that supports his career and his family. The Dumarao campus administrator also cites spiritual growth. For him, CapSU has provided avenues and opportunities in which a strong sense of community benefits the individual. And finally, he notes how emotional quotient has seen improvement through the years of dealing with various personalities and temperaments in the University.

Dr.Ozaraga presents his dewormers study in a conference.

In all these involvements, this Professor VI who wishes to disseminate the technologies to small-hold communities can only constantly renew his commitment to research and extension—even as he expresses his desire to serve the university “with all my mind, my heart and with all my strength.” For him, nothing more will satisfy. (N. Manaog/Extension Associate)

CapSU Pilar alumni, students works featured in photo, visual arts exhibits

By Niño Manaog

Extension Associate

Capiz State University

Pilar, Capiz—In celebration of the 149th foundation day of the Municipality of Pilar, the visual artworks and photos of the students and alumni of the Capiz State University (CapSU) Pilar campus were featured in “Manggad: an Art and Photo Exhibit” recently here.

The exhibit ran from May 26–29, 2014 at the lobby of Pilar Municipal Hall in 

Poblacion, Pilar, Capiz.

Presented by the Municipality of Pilar through the Tagbuan Pilar, Inc. (TPI), Manggad featured the paintings and artworks of the members of TPI, Guban Handuraw (GH) and other local artists.

Among the works featured were Reden Aguadera’s mixed media piece (first and second from left in the collage). Aguadera is GH’s vice-president and a 2012 graduate of CapSU Pilar. In college, he won the title of Mr. Capsu and Mr. PASUC VI first-runner-up. He was also an active Red Cross Youth of CapSU Pilar.

According to its Art Statement penned by Ianthe Marie Benliro and Julian Almirol, Manggad sought to showcase pieces of contemporary art “conceived in a dream, nurtured through time and nourished with patience and love.” Guban Handuraw (GH) is a newly formed group of visual artists who seek to empower the community about “who we really are and what’s within us.” With membership mostly coming from the alumni and students of CapSU Pilar Campus, GH was also formed “to take part in the healing of the world.”

The exhibit was also supported by other GH members based in Baguio and Palawan and the Skills Development, Advocacy, Volunteerism and Empowerment (S.A.V.E.) Program on Health of CapSU Pilar Campus led by Ms. Jennifer Perez-Benliro, the campus’s extension chair.

Pieces exhibited included some 40 paintings, sculptures, photographs and art installations that “reflect social realities, nature, heritage and stories of life” sought to inspire the viewer.

Nelson Balberona, "Kinaugali"

Reggie Joy Benliro,
"Tay, Upod Ko Kay Nanay"

CapSU hosts food products dev’t lecture; showcases Dayao food processing center

By Niño Manaog

With reports from Rector John Latoza

Photos by Rector John Latoza

Roxas City—It’s level-up for the Capiz State University (CapSU).

In order to give directions on food research & development to its research, production & extension personnel, CapSU’s Research, Development and Extension Center (RDEC) spearheaded the Food Products Development Lecture Workshop on May 19, 2014 at the Conference Room of the CapSU Central Office, Fuentes Drive, Roxas City.

Foremost, CapSU President Editha Magallanes encouraged the participants to take stock of the opportunities given to the University, which include the facilities and/or equipment donated by the national government agencies (NGAs) like the Department of Science and Technology, among others.

CapSU President Editha Magallanes (far left) promotes the new processing facilities in Dayao Campus to the visitors from the Cavite-based St. Dominic College of Asia led by Pres. Gregorio Andaman, Jr. (far right). Said facilities were acquired partly through the Department of Science and Technology.

The initiative featured Prof. Marife Hilapad, who lectured on methodology in food research and product development. Hilapad recently completed her graduate studies in food technology from the Visayas State University. 

Gathering some 40 chairpersons, coordinators and staff for research, production and extension from across the CapSU campuses around Capiz, the said capability-building initiative also sought to equip food product researches with added tools focused on food research & development.

And to give the CapSU researchers and production managers the firsthand view on new food product equipment, RDEC led the participants to tour the facilities of the Fish Processing Center acquired by CapSU now based at the Roxas City Dayao Campus. Dr. Edna Nava, project in-charge, hosted the touring delegation.

Dr. Edna Nava (foreground), project-in-charge of the food processing, shows to the visiting CapSU research, production and extension chairs how to operate the manual can sealer. (The center also has an electric can sealer).

Prof. Jocelyn Magallanes, research chair of CapSU Sigma, found the donated equipment advanced, which will be able to help much in packaging the products. In particular, Magallanes found the Center’s vacuum packing impressive even as she also realized how the procedure prolongs the shelf-life of the food products.

For her part, Prof. Nalyn Valzado, extension chair of CapSU Poblacion Mambusao, had to say that she was impressed by the provision of facilities in Dayao.

Dr. Evelyn Borgonia, research director of CapSU Pilar, found that the Dayao facilities can help their processing of silag tocino.

Dr. Vivian Alejaga, research chair of CapSU Roxas City Dayao Campus, also said that the facilities will help improve the food products they have been developing.

Prof. Candelaria Arro, research chair of CapSU Sapian, said that they are exploring the possibility to produce their very own flour made from green mussel, modelled after milkfish flour produced in Dayao Campus within the year.

According to Dr. Guillermo Legada, Jr., CapSU research director, the capability-building also sought to harmonize their plans for specific products to be developed by each of the campuses.

CapSU's new food processing equipment includes a steam jacketed kettle (upper photo) and an electric noodle machine maker (lower photo).

CapSU trains SDCA personnel on oyster mushroom production

By Niño Manaog

Photos by SDCA

Burias, Mambusao, Capiz—It was skills transfer at its best.

On May 19–20, 2014, Dr. Emelita Solante, director of the Extension Institute of the Capiz State University (CapSU) and training-in-charge of CapSU’s Mushroom Production project shared her expertise to four participants from the St. Dominic College of Asia (SDCA) at the Mushroom Training Center (MTC) here.

For two days, Solante taught mushroom culture to Dr. Nilda Balsicas, vice-president for academic affairs and research; Dr. Zenaida Sadiwa, community development officer; Mr. Gydion Nicolie Batuigas, OIC-program chair for nursing; and Mr. Nelson Capagngan, farm manager, all of SDCA.

According to Solante, the participants benefited much owing to their interest and enthusiasm to learn.

After lecturing on the basic concepts involved in mushroom culture, Solante taught the participants hands-on on the different stages involved in oyster mushroom production.

First, they were taught the preparation of pure mushroom culture which includes the preparation of pure culture media; preparation of grain spawn or mother spawn; and preparation of fruiting bags which covers the mixing of substrates, composting, bagging, pasteurization, inoculation and incubation.

Nelson Capagngan (left) and Gydion Nicolie Batuigas (right) sift the sawdust which will be used as substrate for the fruiting bags of the mushrooms.

 According to Solante, pasteurization kills harmful microorganisms, which usually takes six hours; inoculation allows the grain spawn to be added to the pasteurized fruiting bag. Incubation, also called spawn run, then, allows the substrate to be “colonized” by the micro-organism, which usually takes not less than 45 days.

Solante also taught them on mushroom growing practices. Among other practices, Solante stressed that the mushroom grower should practice cleanliness in each of the processes involved. From the preparation of the culture media where the mushrooms will be grown up to the fruiting stage, the grower must see to it that the entire growing area is free of possible contaminants.

As part of preparing the culture media for mushrooms, Dr. Emelita Solante (left) guides Dr. Nilda Balsicas (right) in putting the cotton plugs on the bottles containing the potato dextrose agar (PDA) for sterilization.

She also advised them to observe sanitary practices in order to ward off mushroom flies which infest mushrooms during fruiting stage.

At the end of the training, each of the four participants was required to produce three fruiting bags which will be ready for fruiting after two months. They were also awarded certificates.

The training drew favorable responses. For one, Dr. Balsicas noted the nitty-gritty of the processes involved in mushroom production, citing how trial and error in their hands-on activities made them learn it best. For her part, Dr. Sadiwa found the inoculation procedure to be very meticulous even as she recognized its importance in the production.

As per preparation of the culture media for mushrooms, Dr. Zenaida Sadiwa (foreground), community development officer of SDCA, helps prepare the potato dextrose agar (PDA), general medium for growing fungi, which was used for oyster mushroom production.

The officials said that in the coming months, SDCA will seek to replicate the technology in their own school. They added that they are also willing to transfer the skills to their own constituents in Cavite.

For trainings and reservations, interested parties can contact Dr. Emelita Solante, MTS training-in-charge, at 0917-726-5682.

Collaborations with DOLE, TESDA, Capiz LGUs

CapSU MTS awards 44 welding kits; graduates 38 motorcycle skills trainees

More skilled graduates and better job prospects. 

On April 25, 2014, the Mobile Technology School (MTS) of the Capiz State University (CapSU) led by President Editha Magallanes awarded Kabuhayan (welding) kits to 44 graduates of the Shield Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Training Course at the Dadivas Auditorium on Fuentes Drive, Roxas City.

Per CapSU’s partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Capiz, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Capiz; and the Capiz provincial government, the MTS graduates were trained from July 2012 to November 2012 by Engr. Josue Ajera of the College Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Technology of the Roxas City Main Campus.

Dr. Editha Magallanes (second from left) is joined by TESDA Capiz OIC Jose Gerry Hallares (far left) and Panay Councilor Graciano Balderama (second from right) in awarding the welding kits to the SMAW graduates from Panay, Capiz.

Each of the recipients received a welding kit composed of one unit (300 amp) welding machine; one hacksaw handle with heavy-duty blade; one 8”/10” heavy-duty vise grip; one welding rod handle; and a 15-meter 4/10 welding cable.

The awarded welding kits

In the same rites, CapSU conferred certificates of graduation to the first batch of the Motorcycle Repair and Servicing Training (MRST) conducted by Mr. Lee Bancoyo of the same college. A new addition to the list of MTS courses, MRST taught its first 38 students from March 9 to April 11, 2013.

Recipients of both SMAW and MRST represented the barangays of Tico, Bonga, Magubilan, Lomboy, Anhawon, Poblacion Ilawod, Poblacion Tabuc, Tanza, Dulunan, Libon, Agbalo, Calapawan, Calitan, Candual and Lus-onan, all of the Municipality of Panay, Capiz.

Foremost, CapSU’s Magallanes urged the graduates to take advantage of the opportunities for possible employment to utilize their learning from the MTS course.

Magallanes was supported by Dr. Pedro Gavino, CapSU’s OIC vice-president for research and extension; Dr. Emelita Solante, extension director; and Dr. Editha Alfon, CapSU Roxas City Main Campus administrator.

Also in attendance were representatives of the other partner government agencies, namely: Mr. Jose Gerry Hallera, OIC director of TESDA Capiz and Mr. William Dungog, information officer of DOLE Capiz; and Panay councillors Graciano Balderama, Joselito Baria and Jojo Mejia.

Said activities were coordinated by the Community Extension Services Office of the CapSU Roxas City Main Campus led by Ms. Gemma Angelias, extension chairperson.

Recipient couple from Panay take stock of their livelihood.

Alkalinized water, algebra tiles, coastline waste studies win best papers

By Niño Manaog

Extension Associate

Capiz State University

Two studies on environment and one on creative teaching math to college students topped this year’s Students Research Symposium held on March 14 at the Capiz State University (CapSU) Roxas City Main Campus.

Honey Grace Fuentes

The research paper titled “Water Quality and Waste Disposal Practices of Residents of Roxas City Coastline by Honey Grace Fuentes (see right photo), Arlyn De Pablo and Rachel Juare of the Roxas City Main Campus clinched the first prize in the Natural and Biological Sciences & Environmental Research category.

Topping the nine papers presented for the Education, Humanities and Social Research category was the study titled “Performance of BSED 1 Students in Solving Polynomials Using Algebra Tiles” authored by Mayen Duno, Ailene Duron & Krizel Miramis of Pontevedra Campus. 

Johlyn Palma

Then, out of four entries for the Development and Technological Research category, the research titled “Alkalinizing Water through Vortex and Magnetic Principles as Applied to Plant’s Growth” by Johlyn Palma (left photo), Jeffrey Arceño and Rica Celiz of the Roxas City Main Campus was named Best Paper.

Led by CapSU’s Research, Development and Extension Center (RDEC), the 8th Annual Students Research Symposium gathered some 25 research studies by students from the six campuses of the CapSU system, namely: Dayao, Sigma, Dumarao, Pontevedra, Pilar and Roxas City Main.

All the winners were given certificates of recognition; and the Best Paper awardees and the first runners-up for the three categories will compete in the upcoming Regional Students Research Symposium sponsored by the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) VI at the West Visayas State University in La Paz, Iloilo City.

Said student papers were rated and scrutinized by two panels of evaluators, as follows: Dr. Adelfo Virtudazo, Dr. Jocelyn Magallanes, Dr. Evelyn Borgonia, and Dr. Vivian Alejaga served for the Education, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Natural and Biological Sciences & Environment research categories.

Further, Dr. Guillermo Legada, Jr.; Dr. Benedicto Sustento; Engr. Nicolas Braña, Jr.; and Prof. Sofronio Hervias all served for the Development and Technological Research category.

Anchored on the theme “Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change,” the summit was led by Dr. Guillermo Legada, director for research of the RDEC and supported by Dr. Editha L. Magallanes, CapSU president.

For the complete list of winners, click the link below.
http://thecapsumonitor.blogspot.com/2014/03/winners-of-8th-annual-students-research.html

Winners of the 8th Annual Students Research Symposium

Conference Room & Accreditation Room

Capiz State University Roxas City Main Campus

Fuentes Drive, Roxas City

14 March 2014

Natural and Biological Sciences & Environmental Research Category

Honey Grace Fuentes

Best Paper

Water Quality and Waste Disposal Practices of Residents along Roxas City Coastline by Honey Grace Fuentes, Arlyn De Pablo & Rachel Juare, Roxas City Main Campus. Prof. Ma Consuelo Yap, Adviser

First Runner-Up

Mangrove Assessment in Barangay Bantigue, Pontevedra, Capiz by Rodel Azares & Shara Jean Bacaling, Pontevedra Campus. Dr. Jocelyn Dagudag, Adviser

Second Runner-Up

Assessment of Avian Species of the Panay River System by Rey Mabel Aniog and Rey Mabel Aniog and Jhon Darel Balboa, Pontevedra Campus. Dr. Aletha Rose Onglatco, Adviser

Social Sciences, Education & Humanities Category

Mayen Duno, Ailene Duron and Krizel Miramis

Best Paper

Performance of BSED 1 Students in Solving Polynomials Using Algebra Tiles by Mayen Duno, Ailene Duron & Krizel Miramis, Pontevedra Campus. Prof. Evangeline Ramos, Adviser

First Runner-Up

Profile and Aspiration of Women Inmates at Iloilo City District Jail by Kristel Rose Puasan, Jay Ann Samson, Joemarie Gardonia, Dumarao Campus. Dr. Adelfo Virtudazo, Adviser

Second Runner-Up

Assessment of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in Aglalana, Dumarao, Capiz by Ricardo Garcia, Jr., Jaydee Haudar and Jorge Jimenes, Dumarao Campus. Dr. Adelfo Virtudazo, Adviser

Reading Comprehension Skills of College Freshmen at CapSU Sigma

by Arnold Murquia, Abegail Guardias, Jammie Lou Ytienza & Julie Buenaflor, Sigma Campus.

Development & Technological Research Category

Johlyn Palma

Best Paper
Alkalinizing Water through Vortex and Magnetic Principles as Applied to Plant’s Growth by Johlyn Palma, Jeffrey Arceño and Rica Celiz, Roxas City Main Campus. Engr. Josue Ajera, Adviser

First Runner-Up

Solar-Powered Multicellular Phone Charger by Robert Ucag, Sigma Campus. Prof. Sofronio Hervias, Adviser

Second Runner-Up

Green Mussel and Chicken in Making Siopao by Louie Labajo, Dayao Campus. Prof. Jocelyn Legaspi, Adviser