The Department of Agriculture is launching the P25-million Biotechnology Research Fellowship Program (BRFP) to develop better crops, improve livestock and generate higher fisheries output. BRFP will complement the work of the Agricultural Biotechnology Center established in 2015, which covers laboratories at the Philippine Rice Research Institute for crops, Philippine Carabao Center for livestock and the National Fisheries Research and Development Center for fisheries. The program will allow the research fellows to work in these state-of-the-art laboratories on areas determined by the DA Biotechnology Program Office to be crucial to the development of new agricultural biotechnology products.

DA offers grants on biotech research. (2011, March 18). Malaya Business Insight, p. B2.