Originally this "field trip" was intended to be held last week on the same day that is Friday, but due to scheduling conflicts with other classes of my classmates, it was moved to this day instead.
So yeah, our Laboratory class went on a field trip to two institutions famous for their genetic research found in Nueva Ecija.
Both are found here, by the way.
Let me tell you that it was a long stretch from Manila, and we were inadvertently lost on the way. Since it took hours to get there, I fell asleep while the rest of the class performed mundane tasks to pass the time, as well as to keep themselves awake. When I woke up, apparently it somehow worked for them, for they fell asleep as well.
Once we got there, I was the first one eager to set foot outside the bus. The institutions, one of them being PhilRice which we visited first, were huge. Spanning hundreds of hectares of land, PhilRice aims "to sustain rice self-sufficiency and build a competitive rice economy through research, technology promotion, and policy advocacy". In other words, stave off our dependency on imported rice from other countries, and make our country self-sufficient again, just like it did in the 80's. Right now, the institution is undergoing extensive research to achieve just that. I won't go into details, by the way, of how this objective is being accomplished since it's all in their homepage. Same goes for the PCC, which aims "towards better nutrition, higher levels of income and improved general well-being of the overwhelming sector, the rural farming families... through the conservation, propagation and promotion of water buffalo as important source of milk and meat, in addition to draft power and hide".
At the end of the day, I bought some carabao milk (choco flavored) from the souvenir store found inside the PCC vicinity (which has no preservatives and thus wouldn't last for more than 5 hours) and some pastilles made from carabao's milk which can last for days).
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