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ISU invested majority of the RDE funds on agriculture and aquaculture-
related programs and projects at 97.04%. The remaining fund is used
for RDE on health (1.21%), energy (0.62%), higher education (0.77%)
and public governance (0.37%). It is noted that 63% of the agricultural
commodity investment is provided for livestock and poultry researches,
followed by fisheries sector at 18% and for crops at 10%.
The top three commodities with biggest amount of investment
sourced-out from 2017-2019 are: goat RDE Program with Php
90,939,056.00 of the total investment (37%), followed by freshwater
fisheries RDE program with PhP 28,094,812.00 (12%) and dairy cattle RDE
program with PhP 23,147,212.00 (9%).
Considering the classification of RDE activities, 53% of the grant is
used for applied research; while 12% of the total fund is utilized for
basic research. Under the same period, the University started to
promote and commercialized technologies generated wherein 6% and
8% of the grant are used for technology promotion and
commercialization, respectively. In support to the advancement of
RDE community within the University, 20% of the grant is used for
institutional development in which laboratories equipped with modern
equipment were established. Furthermore, 1% of the grant is for
continuous capability building of researchers.