Eastern Visayas is the Philippines’ agricultural pillar. The local coconut industry ranks as the country’s sixth-largest coconut-producing region, which sustains the livelihood of thousands of local farming households. However, managing this agricultural footprint has never been easy. The region experiences catastrophic storms year-round and is situated within the Pacific typhoon belt. In 2013, Super Typhoon […]
VSU hosted a special lecture that united global conservation experts in avian medicine, raptor conservation, and advanced conservation technologies, Dr. Munir Virani and Mr. Nico Herth, alongside students and faculty from UP Mindanao on September 25, 2025. After the lecture, the delegation explored the Biodiversity Research Center (BRC) at VSU. The Center is currently nurturing […]
Southern Leyte’s lowland dipterocarp forests are considered some of the region’s most biologically rich yet highly vulnerable ecosystems.
The Faculty of Engineering is tapped by the Local Government Units (LGUs) in the region for potential RDEI projects and initiatives. These efforts align with the Faculty’s RDEI Agenda with real community needs on Disaster Risk Reduction Management. VSU DCE, DGE launches Project SIGURADO with LGU Abuyog to Strengthen Community Resilience VSU Department of Civil […]
The Philippine Root Crop Research and Training Center (Philrootcrops) of Visayas State University strengthened its extension efforts through a two-day Training on Ube Production held on August 6-7, 2025, in partnership with the Municipal Agriculture Office of Tampakan, South Cotabato. The training, conducted at the FITS Training Hall, aimed to enhance the capacity of local […]
Restoring our forests goes beyond an environmental mission; it is a collective national responsibility. A new and potentially favorable partnership is in the works as the 93rd Infantry Battalion (93IB) of the Philippine Army under the command of Lt. Col. Celeste Frank Sayson, visited the Biodiversity Research Center (BRC) of the Visayas State University (VSU) […]
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FVM), in partnership with the Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Biological Sciences, successfully conducted a two-day training workshop on “Cultivation, Demonstration, and Biochemical Testing of Environmental Bacteria and Fungi” on August 23-24, 2025 at the FVM’s Microbiology Laboratory. The event offered a hands-on experience in isolating and identifying […]
