Searca pushes calamansi’s revival

TO improve the calamansi industry in Oriental Mindoro, the largest producer of calamansi in the country, the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has embarked on a new project in collaboration with several partners and funding from the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research.

It was during a seminar covened by Searca on February 12 with horticulture experts from the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) when approaches were developed for the scoping activity and baseline studies of the new project titled “Upgrading the Calamansi Value Chain towards Improving the Calamansi Industry of Oriental Mindoro.”