Dr. Roger Roque E. Bustamante of the Department of Animal Science, Visayas State University (VSU), bagged the Best Paper Award at the 2025 SUC-ACAP, Inc. Biennial Conference and General Assembly for his research on processing strategies to improve the tenderness and value-added uses of Darag Philippine native chicken.

The Visayas State University (VSU) has entered into a partnership with Verde Carbon Capture, Inc. (VCCI) to pioneer a large-scale project that targets methane reduction in rice production areas of Leyte and Bohol. 

A groundbreaking international study has revealed how a simple soil nutrient, phosphorus, holds the key to helping sweetpotato plants produce more and bigger roots, the very roots that millions of families in the Philippines across the globe rely on for food and income.