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refers to the appUcation of engineering science and designs to the processes and systems involved in the sustainable production, post production and processing of safe food, feed, fiber, timber and other agricultural and biological materials and the efficient utilization, conservation, and management of natural and renewable resources in order to enhance human health in harmony with the environment. Agricultural and biosystems consist of crops, forestry and other plants, poultry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture resources and other animals, wildlife and other hving things; |
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering |
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refers to a person who is registered and hcensed to practice agricultural and biosystems engineering in the country and who holds a valid certificate of registration and professional identification card from the Board of A gricultural and Biosystems Engineering and the PRC |
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer |
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refers to farm power and machinery for the production, harvesting, processing, storage, manufacture, preserving, transporting and distribution of agricultural and biological products/materials and includes, but is not Umited to, tractors and their attachments, power tillers, seeders, transplanters, windmills, harvesting machines, crop protection and maintenance equipment, irrigation equipment and accessories, greenhouses and other thermal conditioning equipment, hvestock, poultry, fishery and forest equipment, slaughtering equipment, meat/fishery and crop processing equipment, post harvest machines such as milling machines, dryers, threshers, grain and other strippers, agricultural transport machinery and storage; |
Agricultural and Biosystems Power and Machinery |
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refer to buildings and structures for the production, harvesting, processing, storage, manufacture, preserving, transporting and distribution of agricultural and biological products/materials and includes, but is not limited to, silos and its components, agricultural and biosystems machinery and equipment sheds, farm houses, green/screen houses, poultry houses, piggery houses, slaughterhouses, farm-to-market roads, farm bridges, agricultural and biological products storage/warehouse, buildings and structures for poultry, livestock, fishery, and forestry production and processing, kiln drying and lumber treatment structure, farm equipment, farm supphes, and other structures such as self-feeders, and soil and water conservation structures |
Agricultural and Biosystems Buildings and Structures |
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refers to local activity or series of activities to maintain or raise the quality or change the form or characteristics of agricultural, fishery, forestry and biological products/materials and includes, but is not hmited to, cleaning, sorting, grading, treating, drying, dehydrating, grinding, mixing, milling, canning, dressing, slaughtering, freezing, pasteurizing, conditioning, packaging, repacking, transporting of agricultural, fishery, forestry and other biological products/materials; |
Agricultural and Bio-Processing |
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refers to the development of systems, processes, and equipment for agricultural waste disposal and utilization and environment-friendly technologies such as, but is not limited to, compost plants, biogas plants, biomass utilization technologies, systems and processes; |
Agricultural and Biological Waste Utilization and Management |
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refers to utilization of information systems, database, and other information management tools for agricultural use, biological systems modeling to understand the mutual response between life and the environment: and application of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology for inventory, analysis, and management of agricultural and biological resources, and remote sensing technology for observation and examination of the landscape and its local forms and agricultural activities; |
Agricultural and Bio-Information System |
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refers to the use and application of agricultural and biosystems sensors such as, but is not limited to, computer models for control and automation in the agricultural and fishery production industry and the biological systems and likewise, robotics for farm operation when use of machines are difficult or impossible, agricultural and biosystems machine design and automated controls, precision farm ing system s, agricultural safety and controlled-environment agriculture; and the development and apphcation of metrology equipment such as moisture meters, weighing scale and other metrology equipment; |
Agricultural and Biosystems Automation and Instrum entation |
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refers to measures of conservation and proper management of agricultural and biological resources such as, but is not limited to, area development for agriculture, settlem ent and recreation; parks and plant nurseries; beneficial ecosystem of life and environment; study and analysis of agricultural system as an integrated component of landscape; monitoring and conservation of natural resources; rehabilitation of forest, lakes, rivers and idle lands; and the sustainable development, management, and exploitation of the agricultural ecosystem; |
Agricultural and Biosystems Resource Conservation and Management |
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refers to the professional organization of agricultural and biosystems engineers duly accredited by the Professional Regulatory Board of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and the PRC, hereinafter referred to as the “AIPO”; |
Accredited Integrated Professional Organization |
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refers to the tertiary or higher education program which provides graduates with a Baccalaureate Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Degree and shall hereinafter be referred to as BSABE. This program is effectively promulgated under enablmg Policies, Standards and Guidelines (PSG) issued by the CHED in coordination with the Board of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and/or relevant SUCs; |
Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering |
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refers to the government agency created to lead, promote, and regulate higher/tertiary education in the Philippines created under Republic Act No. 7722, hereinafter referred to as the “CHED”; |
Commission on Higher Education |
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refers to the artificial apphcation of water to the soil to assist in the growing of agricultural and forest crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall,and shall include drip, sprinkler, shallow tube well and other pressurized irrigation system; national and communal irrigation systems; surface and ground water resource management; and irrigation structures and facilities such as dams, weirs, pump systems, conveyances, canals, and flumes; |
Irrigation |
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refers to the government agency described under Republic Act No. 8981, hereinafter referred to as the “Commission”; |
Professional Regulation Commission |
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refers to the administrative body created by law to supervise and regulate the practice of agricultural and biosystems engineering and is the ultimate authority in the practice of the agricultural and biosystems engineering profession in the Philippines. It shall be hereinafter referred to as the “Board”; and |
Professional Regulatory Board of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering |
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refers to measures that control soil and water degradation and enhance farm productivity; and shall consist of small farm reservoir, farm ponds, small water impoundments, contour farming, and terracing; soil erosion control, land conditioning and mulching, and flood control. |
Soil and Water Conservation |
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The following acronyms are used in the IRR |
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refers to machinery and equipment for the production, harvesting, processing, storage, manufacture, preserving, transporting and distribution of agricultural fisheries products |
Agricultural and fisheries machinery |
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refers to the development, adoption, assembly, manufacture and application of appropriate, location specific and cost-effective agricultural and fisheries machinery using human, animal, mechanical, electrical, renewable and other nonconventional sources of energy for agricultural production and postharvest/postproduction operations consistent with agronomic conditions and for efficient and economic farm and fishery management towards modernization of agriculture and fisheries; |
Agricultural and fisheries mechanization |
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refers to the local activity or series of activities to maintain or raise the quality or change the form or characteristics of agricultural, fisheries and forestry products. It also includes, but not limited to, cleaning, sorting, grading, mixing, milling, canning, dressing, slaughtering, freezing, pasteurizing, conditioning, packaging, repacking and transporting of said products; |
Agro-industrial processing |
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refers to any boat, ship or other watercraft of three (3) gross tons or less, equipped to be used for taking of fishery species or aiding or assisting one (1) or more vessels in the performance of any activity relating to fishing including, but not limited to, preservation, supply, storage, refrigeration, transportation and/or processing. |
Fishing boat |
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