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
Speakers
Dr. Elizabeth Rieke
Program Director & Soil Microbiome Scientist of Soil Health Institute
Dr. Akira Hasebe
Senior Technical Advisor of Japan Soil Association
Dr. Gina P Nilo (TBC)
Director of Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), Department of Agriculture
Dr. Yuri Ichinose (TBC)
Researcher of Division of Soil Environment Management Research, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO
Seminar Information
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
Dr. Denise Solano (denise.solano@bswm.da.gov.ph)
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