Domingo Panganiban

Domingo F. Panganiban (born August 9, 1939 in Tanauan City , Batangas Province , Philippines ) is a Filipino politician .

biography

After attending school, he studied agricultural sciences from 1956 to 1961 at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Los Baños (Laguna) , which he completed with a Bachelor of Science (BS Agriculture) majoring in agronomy and crop protection . Between 1968 and 1970 he studied administration at the UP in Manila and graduated with a Master of Science degree (M.Sc. Public Administration) in 1970 .

After completing his first studies, he entered the civil service and was first from June 1961 to June 1967 as a control worker and then as chief controller for plant protection in the Bureau of Plant Industry in Zamboanga City and then from July to December 1967 in the Tarlac Province . Subsequently, he was supervisory officer of the office for plant industry for farms in Region III ( Central Luzon ) until June 1969 .

In June 1969, he was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the National Food and Agriculture Council. He remained in this position until September 1975 and was at the same time director of the Plant Industry Bureau in Region III. Subsequently, in September 1975 he was appointed director of the office for plant industry and was also executive director of the National Food and Agriculture Council in this capacity until February 1986. In addition, from March 1984 to October 1985 he was acting director of the Bureau of Agricultural Extension.

During the last two years of President Ferdinand Marcos' office , he was also Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Food from March 1984 to March 1986.

He then switched to the private sector and was first head of an agricultural joint venture project in Gabon from June to July 1986 . After his return to the Philippines, he was from 1987 to 1993 consultant and team manager of the team of Purefood (Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants) in the Philippine Basketball Association . He was later a senior consultant at Development Specialists International, Inc., in Metro Manila in 1995 and then from 1995 to 1996 consultant for rice production and technology for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) in Laos .

After serving as assistant to President Fidel Ramos for agricultural affairs in February 1996 , he was Undersecretary of State in the Department of Agriculture from April 1996 to January 2001. He was also acting head of the National Nutrition Agency (National Food Authority) from November 2000 to March 2001. On January 8, 2001, he was first self- Minister of Agriculture (Secretary of Agriculture), and held that post until March 31, 2001.. Between August 2001 and June 2004 he was then Chief of Staff to Senator Loren Legarda-Leviste . He then worked again as an advisor to the FAO in Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia .

In 2005, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reappointed him as Minister of Agriculture in her cabinet , of which he was a member until he was replaced by Arthur Yap in 2006.

honors and awards

Panganiban has received several awards in the course of his professional career, including the Presidential Plaque of Merit in 1967, the Golden Plow Award in 1974, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños in 1975, the Budiras Award and the PCARR Pantas Award in 1976, 1979 the Dangal ng Batangas Award, 1982 the Lingkod Bayan Award and 1999 the Most Distinguished Alumnus Award of the UP in Los Baños. In 1967 he was also named one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines" for his accomplishments in increasing rice crops.

He has also held several honorary positions such as the vice-presidency of the alumni association of the UP College of Agriculture from 1990 to 1991. He is also an honorary member of the Association of Agricultural Engineers (Philippine Association of Agricultural Engineers) and the Association of Manufacturers of Fertilizers and Pesticides (Association of Fertilizers and Pesticides of the Philippines).

Web links

• biography