Skip to main content

NV’s first state-run university marks 4th anniversary

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—This landlocked province’s first-ever state-run university marked the fourth year of the enactment of the law creating it with series of activities highlighting the achievements of this agriculture-based institution of learning over the week.

The Nueva Vizcaya State University was created four years ago out of the merger of two state colleges in the province – the then Nueva Vizcaya State Institute of Technology here and the then Nueva Vizcaya Polytechnic College in Bambang town. Their merger into the present university came about through a bill authored by Rep. Carlos Padilla of this province’s lone congressional district.


Sen. Edgardo Angara, chairman of the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food, was the guest of honor and speaker during last Friday’s anniversary celebrations of the university, which was also highlighted by the groundbreaking for a new million-peso disease indexing laboratory, which is set to be the first in the country, at the University’s Bayombong campus.


Angara, also instrumental in the creation of NVSU, stressed that the 2008 budget has allocated a bigger budget for the state colleges and universities in order for them to make substantial and pertinent researches for the benefit of the country.


"With this increase in budget, the SUCs would be able to improve their services to their students and in addition, they must teach farmers to return to environmentally safe practices like returning mother fish to the environment," he said.


Angara’s presence also coincided with the NVSU’s recognition of outstanding faculty and nonteaching staff, wherein he was assisted by NVSU President Marilou Abon in giving awards to the recipients.


Earlier, a regional goat and sheep exposition participated in by various academic and nonacademic institutions in Cagayan Valley specializing in the propagation of sheep and goats was also held at NVSU as a part of the three-day anniversary celebration.


"In this celebration, we are highlighting what the university has done in the past four years of its existence and we assure our provincemates that we will continue to provide the needed service in research and development for our people," Abon said. CCL

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NFRDI completes assessment of Buguey lagoon

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Apprehensions over the protection of fishery and other natural resources, relative to the planned dredging of the Buguey Lagoon, can be put to rest after government agencies led by the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute has outlined a number of points to consider in order to forestall any negative effect of such activity . The lagoon, situated at Buguey town some 140 kilometers north of this capital city, is a center of fishery activities particularly seaweeds (Gracilaria) and oyster production, fry and crablets gathering, and fish cage operations. However, the area has been under threat recently due to heavy siltation and constriction resulting to poor water exchange. “The freshwater from the western end and saline water from the sea can not flow freely due to heavy siltation particularly at the portion near the main bridge which affects water quality and fishery operations in the lagoon,” Venchito Villarao, Coastal Resource Management spe...
Post a Comment
Read more

PNP going back to basics

Personnel from the Police Provincial Office in capital town Bayombong led by Sr, Supt. Elmer Beltejar, warm up for their daily afternoon workouts. The PNP, in its bid to enhance the performance and image of its men, goes back to basics by getting into physical activities that will turn them into robust police officers with sound minds and bodies. FT
Post a Comment
Read more

Bug infestation feared to lead to poor rice yield

BY CHARLIE C. LAGASCA ILAGAN, Isabela – A black bug infestation reportedly hit hundreds of hectares of rice farms in neighboring Aurora, fearing this would significantly reduced the coastal province’s rice production amid apprehensions of continued rising of price of the country’s major staple food. According to reports, black bugs have already spread in some parts of Aurora , especially its known rice-producing areas, fearing that it would escalate to the entire province as well as to neighboring areas in Central Luzon and Cagayan Valley , two of the country’s major rice-producing regions. Reports from ABS-CBN-Cagayan Valley had it that at least five barangays in Aurora have already been infested with the said pest, an insect bug which thrives on the leaves of rice plants. Earlier, rice black bug infestations had hit various farming areas in this province’s Dinapigue town, destroying millions of pesos worth of rice crops. Isabela’s Dinapigue and Aurora province are adjacent area. Bot...
Post a Comment
Read more