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:

  1. On-site participants: please contact Ms. Marjorie Jean Tao, who serves as the contact person in DA-BSWM (marjorie.tao@bswm.da.gov.ph)
  2. Online participants: https://forms.gle/PTjAV8A2p2gE7ZU99 (Registration deadline: May 31, 2025)

 

Speakers

Dr. Elizabeth Rieke

Dr. Akira Hasebe

Dr. Gina P Nilo

Dr. Yuri Ichinose

Seminar Information

2025-6-10 ~ 2025-6-13

1 Day Symposium: 9:00-18:00
1 Day Field Trip: 7:00-18:00
2 Days Training Course: 8:00-17:00

Quezon City, the Philippines

Contact Persons

Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC) for the Asian and Pacific Region

Ms. Jennifer Lii (jennifer@fftc.org.tw)

Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), Department of Agriculture, the Philippines

Ms. Marjorie Jean Tao (marjorie.tao@bswm.da.gov.ph)

 

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