Themes:
One-day Hybrid Symposium (June10, open to public)
- Session 1: Soil-health management and practices
- Session 2: Soil health measurement, monitoring, management, and soil organic carbon
- Session 3: Country Report on soil health management, practices, gaps, and challenges
- Session 4: Next steps to enhance soil health and harmonize the method (Round-table Discussion)
One-day on-site field visit (June 11, invited only)
- Mobile Soil Laboratory (MSL) at Sto Domingo Site
Two days on-site training course (June 12-13, invited only)
- Lesson 1: Consistent Measurement of Soil Health Indicators for Interoperable Data
- Lesson 2: Soil Physics-Bulk Density (Cylinder)
- Lesson 3: Soil Microbiology-Respiration and Microbial Identification using Biolog
- Lesson 4: Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen using Carbon, Nitrogen and Sulfur (CNS) Elemental Analyzer Combustion Method
- Lesson 5: Soil Test Kit
- Lesson 6: Water Test Kit
Registration for the symposium:
- On-site participants: please contact Ms. Marjorie Jean Tao, who serves as the contact person in DA-BSWM (marjorie.tao@bswm.da.gov.ph)
- Online participants: https://forms.gle/PTjAV8A2p2gE7ZU99 (Registration deadline: May 31, 2025)