Ricardo lantican biography

• Born on January 8, 1933, Dr. Ricardo M. Lantican is an internationally recognized pioneer in plant breeding.
• Dr. Lantican received the title of National Scientist in 2005 for developing over 20 enhanced mungbean, soybean, and peanut varieties.
• He and his co-authors were also the first to shed light on the Southern maize leaf blight disease –and had the United States paid more attention to them in the 1960s, the country could have saved billions of dollars a decade later.

It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that to this day, Philippine society remains deeply rooted in agriculture.

Going by the World Bank‘s 2017 numbers, about 27.7% of the Filipino workforce is engaged in agricultural industries, with agriculture accounting for 9.7% of the country’s GDP. Furthermore, the Philippines is among the world’s top producers of rice, sugar, coconuts, and corn. Thus, it Roots of Success: How Dr.

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