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Commodity Area Areas of Specialization

• Lumber and Panel Nursery and plantation management

• Products, Furniture and Forest biotechnology (breeding), Product development,
handicrafts, Poles and Marketing and socio- economics
piles

• Bioethanol from cassava Varietal improvement, Pest and disease management, Cul-
and sweet sorghum tural management and farming systems

• Environmental services Watershed management, Integrated soil and water re-
sources management, Environmental hazard management,
Pollution and waste management, Vulnerability impact
assessment

• Biodiversity conservation Management of ecotourism sites, Biodiversity conserva-
and Ecotourism tion, Ecotourism product development, Ethnobotanical,
socio-economic and cultural studies

● Engineering Agricultural Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electri-
cal Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Communication
Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Telecommuni-
cations, Semiconductor Circuit Design

● Fisheries Marine biology, Marine conservation, Ecology and popula-
tion dynamics

● Apiculture Practical and commercial beekeeping

The number of manpower to be developed and trained for a given commodity shall
be confined to the basic minimum. The basic minimum concept, however, shall be
augmented by the establishment of a pool of trained specialists to fill any manpower
deficiency as the need arises.

b. Physical Resources

A similar development program for research facilities shall be adopted. Whenever
deemed justifiable, sophisticated research equipment, especially those electrically
or electronically-operated and necessitating periodic calibration, should be kept in a
Central Laboratory.

For infrastructure facilities which are obviously non-transferable, a different approach
based on individual research station requirements has to be adopted.

12. Guidelines on Technology Transfer and Commercialization

It is hereby a policy of the University to share knowledge and technologies among

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