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Published: 12 April 2023

Viscans, this is not a drill, the much-awaited in-person festivities of #VSUAnniv are finally happening in a few more days.
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Published: 05 April 2023

For two consecutive years, the Visayas State University (VSU) is hailed as the Top 1 Performing State University by the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP)—the country’s largest accreditation body for universities and colleges.
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- Written by Ulderico B. Alviola and Marianne C. Bayron
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Published: 22 March 2023

The College of Management and Economics (CME) successfully invited one of the six members of the monetary board from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) as their anniversary convocation speaker to discuss national fiscal policies and how it impacts agricultural development.
In his keynote message, Dr. V. Bruce J. Tolentino, who is the Private Sector Representative of the BSP talked about how our present monetary policy forced the national government to accommodate an uncompetitive agricultural strategy wherein many of the current interventions are anchored on farmer dole-outs that are not bringing direct gains to the national economy.
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Published: 03 April 2023

From chips, cookies, ice cream, and now a multicolored version of fries called the Pinoy Fries—these are just some of the notable food products that are proudly developed here at the Visayas State University (VSU) and are now mature for commercialization.
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Published: 20 March 2023

Jeju National University’s Subtropical Horticulture Research Institute (JNU-SHRI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Visayas State University’s Philippine Root Crop Research and Training Center (VSU-PhilRootcrops) to engage in field characterization of root crops using drone technology.
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Published: 28 March 2023

Tottori University, one of Japan’s national universities, will be working with the Visayas State University on two research projects that hope to create devices that will be useful for jackfruit and cassava growers.
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Published: 16 March 2023

Dr. Marianne Agnes T. Mendoza, an alumna of the then Leyte State University (now VSU) will serve as the caretaker and chief steward of the only premier state university in the province of Biliran.
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Published: 25 March 2023
A new rice variety that may become the key to addressing the lack of vitamin A in the body was officially introduced to the local farmers of Eastern Visayas through a symposium mainly organized by the newly created Department of Agriculture - Crop Biotechnology Center (DA-CBC).
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Published: 14 March 2023

Justine Bennette H. Millado, Ph.D. an entomologist and faculty member of the VSU Department of Pest Management (DPM) brought home the Best Research Proposal presentation after pitching the insect protein-enriched feed project during a research training course.
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