History of DA Regional Crop Protection Center CALABARZON

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:

• Established in 1981 pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 936 under Letter of Instruction No. 987 signed by former Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos.

• Technically under the supervision of the Crop Protection Division of the Bureau of Plant Industry before the re-organization in the Department of Agriculture.

• The building, laboratory, equipment and vehicle of the Center were provided thru a bilateral technical cooperation of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) under the Philippine-German Biological Plant Protection Project.

• RCPC became attached to DA-Regional Field Unit with the passage of Executive Order 116 in January 1987.

• An additional unit was attached to RCPC with the creation of a Special Disbursing and Personnel Unit thru Special Order No. 1 series of 1999. It was renamed DA-RCPC Disbursing Unit when it became attached to RCPC in December of the same year and was then dissolved 3rd quarter of 2016.

• Under the current organizational structure, RCPC in under the Integrated Laboratory Division of the Regional Field Office IV – CALABARZON.