Job Order for Programmer/System Analyst/Administrator

JOB ORDER:

Supply of labor of one (1) Programmer/System Analyst/Administrator at the Marketing Development Division for the  period of March 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012.

SCOPE OF WORK:

1. Handles & manages the IT infrastructure of 2KR Project of MDD (IT infrastructure includes hadware, software, data IT manpower & connectivity (voice & data);

2. Performs analysis, design & programming of software applications and /or system that are required to support business processes of the orgranization;

3.  Documents & maintains all software applications purchased or developed by the orgranization;

4. Provides technical support to IT users in the organization;

5. Provides IT recommendation to Project Coordinator to improve IT efficiency within  network  and partner organization of the project;

6. Performs tasks that will bring quality, efficiency and convenience to IT users in the organization

7. Could support and travel to assist BAI-MDD Related ICT activities in the regional level and local government units

8. Performs other project related activities as required.

Qualifications of Programmer/System Analyst/Administrator

1. At least 21 years old

2. Diploma in Associate in Computer Science.

3. At least 2 years experience in IT-related job (web developer, networking

and troubleshooting both hardware and software.)

For interested applicant, please call Mr. Elmer Esplana, Project Coordinator at 9259229/9266866 or email your resume at bai.lomproject@gmail.com

Wanted Research Assistant

JOB ORDER: Supply of labor and services of one (1) RESEARCH ASSISTANT at the Marketing Development Division (MDD), Bureau of Animal Industry  for the period of March 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012 SCOPE OF WORK: 1. Assists in the preparation of materials/resources and implementation of the project as directed by the Project Leader and Project Coordinator; 2. Collects and encodes, collates and analyzes data on socio-economic performance of LGUs, livestock and poultry agricultural/agribusiness situation of project sites.  3. Prepares drafts of monthly and quarterly reports. 4. Support the activities of the database, web content writing and management  5. Could travel and participate in the fields work of the socio-economics research and MIS research and assessment of LGU clients.  6. Monitor, draft and facilitate the reply to email and letter communications received by the MDD-Project Management Office related to the project. 7. Performs other project related activities as required. Qualifications of RESEARCH ASSISTANT 1. At least 20 years old. 2. Preferably a graduate of BS Economics, Development    Development Communication, Agricultural Economics,    Computer Science, Agribusiness and Marketing Mgt. 3. At least 2 years experience in either research-related or IT-related job
For those interested applicants, please email your resume at bai.lomproject@gmail.com or call Mr. Elmer Esplana at 9259229/9266866.

Pinoy Yan Sharing Time Series, January 2012

Pinoy Yan Sharing Time Series, January 2012

Pinoy Yan Sharing Time No. 4. Our country needs righteous leaders who are willing to revolutionize the improvement of socioeconomic, governance and spiritual condition of this country, leaders who are willing to left legacy and history in local and national development, in the succeeding 10 years and for the next generation with eternal value. Yes, amid the injustices of life created by unrighteous leaders in the Philippines, here comes the provision of courage, faith and strength which will only come from the All-powerful, All-present and All-knowing God of righteous leaders. Would you like to be one of them? Pinoy Yan! - ERE, January 21, 2012

Pinoy Yan Sharing Time No. 3.  Never look at what you have lost, look at what you have left (Lifted from Robert H. Schuller, The Be-Happy Attitudes, 1st Indian Edition, 1992). Build on your strengths and do something to improve your weaknesses for the better. Continue to fight for your country’s future because you know that there will always be hope for those who trust the Lord, God Almighty, whatever happen. Remember all the good things He has done for your family, your work, and your country. Renewed your minds and hearts for a higher calling from God.  He is good all the time! ERE, January 18, 2012 

Pinoy Yan Sharing Time No. 2. It is a blessing to know that someone up there is looking for each one of us, who cares for our needs and who inspires us to make a difference in the lives of other people! We look forward for a closer journey with Him everyday! Hurrah! He is good all the time! - ERE, January 13, 2012

Pinoy Yan Sharing Time No. 1. We can teach ourselves to be happy! The future begins with whatever is in our hands today! Jesus taught us that giving was one of the ways to multiply what He has given each one so that he can fulfill His plan in our lives. May the Lord Jesus Christ inspire us to do better in 2012 and onwards for our individual family, for all Filipinos, for the Phiilippines and for the glory of His name. God is good all the time! - ERE, January 7, 2012

Blessed be the New Year 2012 for each one. May this serve as a new beginning of more intense journey of all Filipinos for making the Philippines, a great country again. We move forward so that "Pinoy kase" becomes "Pinoy Yan" in the next 10 years. Hurrah! God is good all the time! Purihin sya lagi! - December 30, 2011

Pinoy Yan Movement: An Open Invitation to Regain the Greatness of the Brown Race in the succeeding 10 Years and Onwards

Pinoy Yan Movement: An Open Invitation to Regain the Greatness of the Brown Race - Filipino people - in ten years and onwards 

To all Filipino who believes that we can be a better country again;


During the end of the year, part of the activities I have done is to look at how we can be of better use as an individual Filipino citizen in our generation and to make an impact for the next generation to come. In my personal devotional time,  I got the impression that the key to making this country a great nation again in the coming days. From what we have done during the 60's as some other countries have admired the Philippines for being a model, as described by Aseanfocus.com, stated as "By the 60's the Philippines was the most successful manufacturing country in Southeast Asia and appeared to be the most prosperous."-  lifted from "A Short History of Southeast Asia: Philippines"


We were no. 2 then,  second only to Japan based on most of the observers in Asia. But now we are  no. two to the lowest or one of the countries with the lowest level of socio-economic development in Asia. We are left behind by South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, to name some.  


As a people, we need to organized a unified effort to make our "bad image" with the name "Pinoy Kase," which connotes a negative image for us Filipinos or "Pinoy," as it relates to the bad "crab mentality"  attitude. 


An example of this bad image include doing illegal things abroad, doing short cuts in  doing business to attain success, and the "crab mentality" attitude, I have earlier mentioned.  


Crab mentality describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase...."if i can't have it, neither can you."  It is a metaphor referring to a pot of crabs in which one of them tries to escape and instead is pulled down by the rest of them (http://wiki.answers.com). 


Sabi ng Answers.com ang "crab mentality" ay nagsimula ayon sa kasaysayan  noong panahon pa ng Kastila.  Isa itong kaugalian namana pa ng mga Filipino sa Kastila. Ito ay isang kaugalian na hindi kaaya-aya dahil isa itong pangit na kaugalian ng ilang mga Filipino. Kabilang sa nakalakip na masamang paguugali sa "crab mentality" or "utak alimangu"  ay ang  paninirang puri, pag-gawa ng kwento sa kapwa, at inggit sa mga  nakakaangat na kababayan.


The Answers.com gave this example: 

"Ang crab o alimangu pag nilangay mo sa timba ay nag uunahan makapunta sa bunganga ng timba, ngunit sa pag punta nga ilan sa malapit na sa bunganga nito ay hinahatak naman ng ibang alimangu ang ilan para hindi makalabas sa timba. Maihalintulad nito ang tao, pag may nakakaangat na sa buhay, ang ilan ay panag-iisipan ng masama."

We need to remove this bad attitude and start replacing it with a good attitude which basically will support  our country to become a great country again in this time of the 21st century,  not only for this generation, but for the succeeding generation of the Brown Race.

  

As I have put it during my year-end contemplation with this prayer and wishes for each one for  2012:    

"Blessed be the New Year 2012 for each one.  May this serve as a new beginning of more intense journey of all Filipinos for making the Philippines, a great country again.  We move forward so that "Pinoy Kase" becomes "Pinoy Yan" in the next 10 years.  Hurrah! God is good all the time! Purihin sya lagi!" - December 30, 2011

The "Pinoy Kase!" bad image includes the "crab mentality" as something part of the culture which we need to transform into a positive one.  We can transform this crab mentality attitude  into a positive attitude by believing that as Filipino we can unitedly contribute positively in the national and local development of the Philippines. This could start from performing our duties and responsibilities in our individual family, to the performance of our individual duties and responsibilities in our work and vocation in life.  This could serve as our individual reason  and motivation to become a better person God wants us to be, for ourselves, for our  family, for our people and for our country, in the process. 

Furthermore, I am sharing with you this important open invitation, as a demonstration of promoting Pinoy Yan Movement.  It is a movement and a challenge to all Filipinos to collectively contribute in developing a new good image of Filipinos, the Pinoy Yan attitude here in the Philippines and abroad. In my initial promotional sharing time message, I stated that,   

"We can teach ourselves to be happy!  The future begins with whatever is in our hands today! Jesus taught us that giving was one of the ways to multiply what He has given each one, so that he can fulfill His plan in our lives. May the Lord Jesus Christ inspire us to do better in 2012 and onwards for our individual family, for all Filipinos, for the Phiilippines and for the glory of His name. God is good all the time!" -  Pinoy Yan Sharing Time No. 1, January 7, 2012

My advocacy for every Filipino, rich or poor, young or old, male or female, student, professional, housewife or farmer or whatever vocation you are in or you have inclination is to do our own  individual business by giving our best contribution based on the talents, skills, and gifts which was given to us by God,  to demonstrate excellence and to promote best practices in whatever areas of influence we are in as Filipinos. 

Sabi nga, "Trabaho lang  walang personalan" should be our motto, a demonstration that we are doing our own business well as a renewed Filipino citizen during this time and for our country's future in the succeeding generation.     

We say, "let live and let others live as human beings created by God."   If we have done this individually, the blessing of our Great King and Creator will be poured out from heaven, because we have demonstrated the giving of ourselves for others to live - our fellow Filipinos. You will be blessed, I will be blessed, all Filipinos will be blessed because the curse which I call and we all call as the "crab mentality" among us have been removed as part of our culture.    

If we will not eliminate the culture of "crab mentality" among ourselves and among our people, it will be a forever curse, and part of our cultural liabilities, as Filipinos or as a people.  


I personally aim to organize a campaign that "crab mentality" be removed as one of the bad attitudes that hampered us to attain a higher level of  socio-economic growth and development, as a country. 


Yes, we can rise again as a great people and great country in Asia!  We can rise again with a renewed strength, new hope, new commitment and new life changed by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, for the whole world,  for the national economy, for the socio-economic development, for each one my brothers and sisters, for the better life ahead in the next 10 years and onwards. Yes, we can say eye-to-eye to each one, and to our Great Creator, that we have done our part and the best that we can, in our time!  

May the Lord Jesus Christ be our guide along the way in promoting the Pinoy Yan attitude, a positive attitude of developing a God-given confidence that He has provided us as a gift, a blessing and part of His grace and mercy in the Brown Race.  


Yes, we can do better and we can be a great people,  a great country, capable of competing in any areas of expertise, with the rest of the world's different nationalities. These include further improving a sustained socio-economic growth and development in the Philippines in 2012 and in the coming years. 


Your individual contribution will matter a lot, I believed, brothers and sisters, mga Kapuso, mga Kapamilya! 

Salamat so inyong lahat, mga kapwa ko Filipino! "Kapwa ko, Mahal ko" as one TV program says.

Finally, I will leave this new dream which I have conceptualized when I visited Singapore in February of 2011 and will give you statement of pledge for the Philippines for the Pinoy Yan Movement which says: Statement of Pledge for the Philippines of "Pinoy Yan Movement" 

"We, the citizens of the Philippines and inhabitants of this country, pledge ourselves as one united people, regardless of language and local dialect, provincial, regional and racial differences, political affiliation, and religion; to build a democratic, God-fearing, peace-loving, collaborative and interdependent society based on justice, equality, good governance, nationalism, discipline, participation, prayer, faith and sacrifice, so we can contribute for the advancement of our country's societal challenges, needs and concerns at the right time, right place and with the right purpose; and to aim to become “Champion” in the individual God-given calling that we are in, so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and progress for our nation." February 2011 - 

I strongly believe that we can all contribute in this Statement of Pledge if we will only make it a commitment among ourselves for the Brown Race - Filipino people - in the next 10 years and onwards. 

For your comments, please email me at digitalpinoy2038@gmail.com. God is good all the time!

Sincerely,

Elmer R. Esplana 

Convenor, Pinoy Yan Movement  

Pamora Farm, Pidigan, Abra

Our visit in Pamora Farm early September 2011 at Pidigan, Abra of a friend Ms. Tina Morados and Gerard Papillon. 

Message of Secretary Proceso Alcala delivered by Director Efren Nuestro

Message

Secretary Proceso J. Alcala

(Message delivered by BAI Director Efren C. Nuestro on behalf of Department of Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala during the inauguration & blessing of La Union Honeybee Center, Raois, Bacnotan, La Union, September 2, 2011)

The Honorable La Union First District Congressman Victor Ortega, former DA Secretary now Bohol Third District Congressman Arthur Yap; Governor Manuel Ortega, SB Member Franklin Almodovar to represent Bacnotan Mayor Rufino Fontanilla,  NARTDI Executive, Dr. Apolonio Sito;  OIC DMMMSU President, Dr. Diosdado Bangug;  DMMMSU VP for R&E, Dr. Florentina Dumlao;  Engr., Orlando Balloguing, President of Beekeeper Association of Philippines, Inc., Dr. Jose Reaño, private sector representative to the NARDTI Advisory Board, Provincial Board Member Pepe Ortega, fellow government workers,  guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon to everyone and most specially our beekeepers.    

It is an honor to for me to be invited here in this special occasion which is the inauguration and blessing of La Union Honeybee Center here in Raois, Bacnotan, La Union.

The Department of Agriculture, in general, and the Bureau of Animal Industry, in particular is happy to witness this momentous event as a new development in the honey industry in the Philippines.   The Department of Agriculture has already recognized the inclusion of the apiculture/beekeeping as  one of the commodities of the Department of Agriculture and the significant contribution of this emerging industry in the agriculture sector.

The country is producing honey at 150 metric tons per year. This is not enough to satisfy the requirement of the different end-users using this honey such as the households, hotels, restaurants and other institutional buyers. The country has imported honey in 2009 at 399 tons valued at $ US 1.32 million or an estimated peso value of P61 million.   We are also importing artificial honey of 104 tons valued at P4 million. In 2009, the major supplier of natural honey is Australia which contributes around 89 percent of the supply of honey in 2009.  India contributed three (3) percent, United States and Austria contributed both two (2) percent. Thailand and Egypt contributed both only one (1) percent. 

With this new La Union Honeybee Center which the province of La Union envisioned to make your province the “Honeybee Capital of the North” we believe that this is a good move for the honey industry stakeholders to be competitive and profitable.  This center basically answers that concern of our beekeepers of getting one-stop-shop center that will help our beekeepers to improve their post-production and marketing activities of the supply chain of the bee industry which will encourage more farmers to go into the beekeeping and produce more honey.

The Secretary would be happy to note of the development of apiculture in La Union and rest assured that he will provide the much needed support to the industry.

On a personal note, BAI Director Efren Nuestro said that while going to La Union he saw billboard of a big fastfood chain which support in promoting the honeybee industry by posting says the words “Bee Happy” with their mascot.   To him he said that it shows of the unity or cooperation of the food service stakeholder with the honey industry stakeholders for the apiculture development in the province.

Let’s all move forward to a higher level of call and become a “Champion” in our individual area of participation in the honeybee industry development in the country. Good afternoon again to each one and “Mabuhay ang honey industry” in La Union and in the Philippines.

Development in the Supply Chain of the Philippine Agri-tourism Industry: An Assessment

I am sharing the presentation material I presented during the 1st International Agriculture and Tourism Expo (IATE) at the World Trade Center (WTC), Pasay City, Philippines, July 1, 2011. This is an additional information aside from the Executive Summary I also posted here in Pinoy Online Socio-economics and Agri-tourism Support Blog.

This will be useful for those interested to look for an investment opportunities in the Philippines both for local and foreign investors.

Please click the link below to go to the presentation in slideshare.net.

http://www.slideshare.net/cpr_elmer/development-in-the-supply-chain-of-the-philippine-agritourism-industry