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The in-person festivities of the #VSUAnniv are back. After being stalled for more than three years owing to the pandemic, the largest and grandest founding anniversary celebration of the Visayas State University is now set to be physically experienced on campus.

What’s in store for you in VSU’s 99th Founding Anniversary?

Viscans, this is not a drill, the much-awaited in-person festivities of #VSUAnniv are finally happening in a few more days. 

VSU retains Top 1 performing status in PH’s biggest accrediting body for SUCs

For two consecutive years, the Visayas State University (VSU) is hailed as the Top 1 Performing State University by the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP)—the country’s largest accreditation body for universities and colleges.

VSU reintroduces Pinoy Fries from sweetpotato on PhilRootcrops' 46th anniv

From chips, cookies, ice cream, and now a multicolored version of fries called the Pinoy Fries—these are just some of the notable food products that are proudly developed here at the Visayas State University (VSU) and are now mature for commercialization.

Japanese university works with VSU on device dev’t for jackfruit and cassava

Tottori University, one of Japan’s national universities, will be working with the Visayas State University on two research projects that hope to create devices that will be useful for jackfruit and cassava growers.

Golden rice gets promoted to local farmers in regional crop biotech forum

A new rice variety that may become the key to addressing the lack of vitamin A in the body was officially introduced to the local farmers of Eastern Visayas through a symposium mainly organized by the newly created Department of Agriculture - Crop Biotechnology Center (DA-CBC). 

On CME’s anniv, BSP official pushes for more funding for agricultural universities

The College of Management and Economics (CME) successfully invited one of the six members of the monetary board from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) as their anniversary convocation speaker to discuss national fiscal policies and how it impacts agricultural development.

In his keynote message, Dr. V. Bruce J. Tolentino, who is the Private Sector Representative of the BSP talked about how our present monetary policy forced the national government to accommodate an uncompetitive agricultural strategy wherein many of the current interventions are anchored on farmer dole-outs that are not bringing direct gains to the national economy.

Jeju National University ties with VSU on using drones to characterize root crops

Jeju National University’s Subtropical Horticulture Research Institute (JNU-SHRI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Visayas State University’s Philippine Root Crop Research and Training Center (VSU-PhilRootcrops) to engage in field characterization of root crops using drone technology.