About CRTD
The Philippine Business
for Social Progress (PBSP) is the country’s
oldest and largest corporate-led non-stock, non-profit, social
development foundation. In 1979, PBSP established the Center
for Rural Technology Development (CRTD). CRTD, has since, fulfilled
is institutional mandate of developing, testing, validating,
and disseminating technologies appropriate for lowland farming.
As the technology development and dissemination arm of PBSP,
CRTD develops agri-based technologies and farming systems to
demonstrate that farming is still a highly competitive, profitable
enterprise, and as such, become an alternative to the conversion
of farmlands for industrial use.
 To
carry out its mandate, CRTD maintains an 11.3-hectare farm complex
in San Isidro, Calauan, Laguna,
about 70 km. south of Manila, where various modules and projects
are tested and commercialized.
CRTD also maintains
a Training Center where technologies developed and verified
are disseminated to PBSP farmer-beneficiaries and external
clients. The training center also serves as a venue for various
institutional and non-PBSP seminars and training and is equipped
with conference hall and a dormitory for in-house trainings.
The demo farm serves as laboratory for hands-on practicum
and farm work for CRTD-managed technology courses.
Professional
staff, experts on various fields of agriculture, manage the
Center. Presently, CRTD has five (5) Technical Staff supervising
the farm operations, two (2) Training Staff in-charge of the
training functions and three (3) Finance and Administrative
personnel.
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