Ramon Barba Facts
Ramon Barba Facts
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| Barba was born in Ilocos Norte, Philippines and was the youngest of four children. |
| He attended high school at the University of the Philippines. |
| The renowned orchid researcher Dr. Helen Layosa Valmayor was the biology laboratory instructor. |
| In 1958 he graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BS in Agriculture. |
| His grandfather who was an official of the Bureau of Plants and Industry encouraged his studies. |
| In 1962 he earned his MS in Horticulture from the University of Georgia where he had experimented on inducing flowering in plants using gibberellic acid and potassium nitrate. |
| In 1967 he earned his PhD in Plant Physiology from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. |
| Mr. and Mrs. Jose Quimson of Quimara Farms in San Antonio allowed him to conduct experiment on their mango farm. |
| He induced 400 trees to flower within a week to a month of the first spraying. |
| He documented his study in a paper titled Induction of Flowering of the Mango by Chemical Spray. |
| He expanded his research on plant physiology to include bananas, cassava, and sugarcane. |
| He has been credited with greatly increasing the mango industry in the Philippines. |
| Barba patented his process to prevent others from doing so and does not charge farmers for its use. |
| Dr. Barba was recognized as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in Agriculture in 1974. |
| He received Horticultural Technology Award in June 1999. |
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