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Dizon grew up in a farm at Bongabon, Nueva Ecija where rice, onion,
cabbage and other vegetables are the main crops. His high school days
were spent in the mountainside of Sabani Estate Agricultural College,
Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija where he concurrently worked in the poultry,
piggery and vegetable project of the school. As a working student, he
was able to save enough money to pay for his 1st and 2nd year tertiary
education at Central Luzon State University where he earned his BS
Agriculture specializing in soil and fertilizer with highest honors.
His breakthrough in the field of agriculture about grapes, durian,
rambutan, mangosteen, lanzones, lychees, longans, imported and local
mangoes, Davao pummelo, and other exotic fruit trees were published in
national newspapers, and magazines. His technologies were even used as
references in radio stations and TV programs.
In
his history of National Fruits Research and Development Team pf
Philippine Council for Agricultural Research and Development (PCCARD),
Department of Science and Technology, he is the only fruit specialist
who is a non-UP, non Ph.D. member. He was also a resource
speaker-lecturer on the production of high value fruits of Technology
and Livelihood Resources Center (TLRC) under the Office of the President
of the Philippines.
A
multi-awarded agriculturist, he is the first Ulirang Ama Awardee in the
field of agriculture as Father of Modern Plant Technology.
During
the Marcos regime, he planted grapes and other fruit trees at the
Malacaņang grounds to support the First Lady Imelda Marcos' Green
Revolution Project. Former First Lady Ming Ramos ordered the transfer of
big trees of rambutan, lychee, longan and others from the author's
former UP BLISS Economic Garden for her Clean and Green Project. All of
these trees are now growing well at the Malacaņang ground.
He
also provided technical know-how in propagating a million grafted
seedlings of carabao mango, durian, lychee, longan and longkong for a
big company in Negros.
Every Sunday, he gives free lectures and pointers at his fruits showcase
at DENR-PAWB-Dizon Botanic Fruit Garden and Techno-Demo Center at the
Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife, North Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. And
to ensure the continuity of his vision to improve the condition of our
country's fruit tree industry, he passed on the knowledge to his eldest
son Gary S. Dizon, a BS Agriculture graduate of Gregorio Araneta
University Foundation.
And to further pursue this endeavor, he wrote and published Practical
Guide to Backyard or Orchard Farming,
this book as
a guide in backyard and orchard farming.
With
these breakthroughs, the author should be rich now but his own
countrymen exploited him. In his desire to promote planting of high
value fruit trees in different provinces of the country, he was deceived
by several businessmen and other influential individuals to tie up with
them.
Although there are many lucrative offers from big plantations in the
country and abroad as consultant, the author chooses to remain
independent in his struggle for the betterment of the fruit industry and
live in a low cost housing BLISS project of the government besides his
first fruit paradise.
The author is rich in breakthroughs and superior varieties of fruit
trees that can be reproduced in millions or billions of seedlings for
the government's food production program.
A
Ph.D. Thai who graduated from CLSU commented that if only the author is
in Thailand, he should be very rich now. With his breakthroughs, he
would be congratulated by the King of Thailand and would be fully
supported financially and morally.
The present status of the country's fruit industry exemplifies the case
of the author. Perhaps this is the only country in the world where plant
technology is being fought in court. And the irony of it, state
universities whose objective is to research modern technology appears
the one hindering the progress.
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