BAGUIO CITY — Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piol on Friday reiterated the importance of modernizing agricultural processes as he opened the Smart Greenhouse Philippines pilot project at the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) compound here that was funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
BAGUIO CITY — Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piol on Friday reiterated the importance of modernizing agricultural processes as he opened the Smart Greenhouse Philippines pilot project at the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) compound here that was funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
“We have a lot of potential in the country and the problem in the past is that we did not explore the potentials of this (Smart Greenhouse Philippines) technology,” Piol said.
He said this is the first step toward the modernization of agriculture in the Philippines, adding that “smart” agriculture is a fully automated greenhouse operated using a mobile phone.
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