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Governance Center; Cagayan Valley ter fisheries RDE program with PhP
Cattle Artificial Insemination Re- 28,094,812.00 (12%) and dairy cattle
number of search and Training Center; Center RDE program with PhP 23,147,212.00
faculty for Organic Agriculture Research (9%).
Extension and Training; Social Sci-
researchers rose ences Research, Data Analytics and Considering the classification of
from 49.23% Statistical Center; and, Training and RDE activities, 53% of the grant is
Competency-based
Certification used for applied research; while 12%
in 2018 to Extension and Research Center. To- of the total fund is utilized for basic
73.81% gether, they reinforce the 26 R&D research. Under the same period, the
centers in driving R&D directions of University started to promote and

in 2019. respective industries they cater. commercialized technologies gener-
ated wherein 6% and 8% of the grant
Funding Support for are used for technology promotion
Research and commercialization, respective-
ly. In support to the advancement
The University has established of RDE community within the Uni-
a good practice of allocating budget versity, 20% of the grant is used for
in support to its research engage- institutional development in which
ments. This is reinforced thru the laboratories equipped with mod-
University’s linkages and research ern equipment were established.
networks that allowed additional Furthermore, 1% of the grant is for
funding supports. In 2019, a total of continuous capability building of re-
RDE FUND INVESTED Php 88,090,339 expenditures dedi- searchers.
BY COMMODITY/FIELD cated to robustly maximize research
outputs and related research under- Vibrance on Research
takings which include the establish- Outputs and Technology
ment and operation of the Five (5) Generation
additional R&D Centers, research
production, and technology genera- The enhanced R&D manage-
tion. ment and funding brought signifi-
cant increase to research workforce
ISU invested majority of the RDE and output productivity. In fact, the
funds on agriculture and aquacul- number of faculty researchers rose
ture-related programs and projects at from 49.23% in 2018 to 73.81% in
97.04%. The remaining fund is used 2019. This enriched human resource
for RDE on health (1.21%), energy complements the growth on the de-
(0.62%), higher education (0.77%) livery of new research outputs.
Livestock &
Poultry and public governance (0.37%). It In 2019, the number of on-going
is noted that 63% of the agricultural
Crops commodity investment is provided researches soared to about 300 and
Fisheries for livestock and poultry researches, counting. There were also 149 com-
Climate Change followed by fisheries sector at 18% pleted researches that added-up to
and for crops at 10%. the library of innovative knowledge
Farm
Mechanization and discoveries of the University. A
The top three commodities total of 106 researches made way to
with biggest amount of invest- prestigious national and interna-
ment sourced-out from 2017-2019 tional research presentations where
are: goat RDE Program with Php reputable researchers converge to
90,939,056.00 of the total invest- exchange technical and theoretical
ment (37%), followed by freshwa- expertise to further augment research

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