TO help Filipino farmers discard their obsolete ways, the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has unveiled a new program, called Emerging Innovation for Growth (EIG). According to Searca Director Glenn Gregorio, EIG is powered by Searca’s “innovEIGhts” model of fostering collaboration among the academe, industry and government. EIG is the flagship program in Searca’s 11th Five-Year Plan that is focused on “Accelerating Transformation through Agricultural Innovation,” or Attain. Rico Ancog, Searca EIG program lead, said innovEIGhts called for institutional partnerships across Southeast Asia and beyond to foster an open collaboration culture that harnesses the power of engaged minds to co-create innovative solutions to transform the lives of farmers and farming families. He added that innovEIGhts consisted of component tools that partners could draw upon for designing initiatives and scaling them up to Attain Agri 4.0.

Source: Manila Times October 21, 2020 16:07 UTC