The search is on for the first Ulat SIPAG Awardees. PCAARRD has opened its doors to nominations for the 2018 Ulat SIPAG award. Consisting of the print and broadcast categories, Ulat SIPAG, seeks to boost the promotion of the Council’s Strategic Industry (S&T) Program for Agri-Aqua Growth (SIPAG).
The Industry Strategic S&T Program (ISP), the Council’s latest R&D-enabling blueprint, embodies the different S&T Plans for selected agricultural commodities and crosscutting concerns, describe the targets for each industry, and pinpoint the aspects of the industry where S&T will make a difference.
Previously known as the PCAARRD Professional Media Awards, the award has been revised to become more plainfolk in nature and parallel with the other three awards given during the PCAARRD anniversary, namely the Pantas, Tanglaw, and Ugnay, which are all Tagalog words. The award continues to recognize the important role and valuable support of media practitioners as a vital link between the S&T sector and its clients in technology promotion, commercialization, and adoption.
Through Ulat SIPAG, PCAARRD will recognize the effort of media practitioners in popularizing science and technology in relation to PCAARRD’s priority concerns, primarily on its ISPs.
For print, the materials should focus on a particular technology or commodity in the ISPs and should create awareness and interest on research and development (R&D) projects/services of PCAARRD and its allied agencies in the National Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development Network (NAARRDN). The article may be of any length and should have only one byline.
The Ulat SIPAG Award shall be given to a professional media practitioner (PMP). A PMP for the print category is a practicing writer whose articles pertain to agriculture, aquatic, and natural resources (AANR) sectors and are published in national, regional, and local dailies; magazines; and professional newsletters from 2016-2017.
For the broadcast category, the award shall be open to all broadcasters of radio programs in AM radio stations that have continually aired S&T-related information with AANR content, with emphasis on any of the PCAARRD ISPs. The program must have written/produced plugs for radio and must be aired, at least in part, in an interview format.
The nominee must be a practicing radio broadcaster who has consistently broadcast S&T topics or information relating to the AANR for at least two years, immediately preceding the year of award.
The requirements for the submission of entries are as follows:
• Nomination of the page editor/publisher
• Application/acceptance of the nominee
• Three news and three feature articles published with by line within the preceding two years
• Readers’ feedback, if any, as supported by letters or any appropriate documents from the said audience
Broadcast
• Nomination of the manager or any appropriate officer of the broadcasting company
• Application/acceptance of the nominee
• Background description of the radio program
• Certification of airing
• Summary outline of program formats employed in the program
• Three sets of taped samples of broadcast program of not less than 30-minute script
• Feedback letters from listeners/viewers such as letters of inquiry about the information or technology
All nominations must be addressed to the Executive Director, PCAARRD, Los Baños, Laguna, and must be submitted on or February 28, 2018.
Cash prizes and plaques await the winners for each category.
Nomination forms, entry forms, and guidelines for the Ulat SIPAG Award are available at PCAARRD Headquarters and can also be downloaded from the Council’s website at http://www.pcaarrd.dost.gov.ph/home/portal/index.php/ulat-sipag-award.