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 Project covering two townships and eight villages. While working with 

 IREI, he had a chance to visit Taiwan in October 197^ and participated 

 in a 2-week Multiple Cropping Training Course sponsored by Food and Fer- 

 tilizer Technology Center (FFTG) of the Asian Pacific region (ASPAC) . 



In September 1976, he entered the Graduate School of the Univer- 

 sity of Florida with a Rockefeller Foundation graduate fellowship for 

 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in horticulture with major interest 

 in vegetable cropping systems. 



Mr, Palada has been a member of the Crop Science Society of the 

 Philippines, Weed Science Society of the Philippines, and Biology 

 Teachers Association of the Philippines. He is a member of American 

 Society for Horticultural Science, American Society for Horticultural 

 Science Tropical Region, Florida State Horticultural Society, American 

 Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science 

 Society of America. 



He is happily married to Elisa Hortelano, and they have two 

 children. Daffodil and Ted Peter. 



The author has accepted a 1-year post -doctoral fellowship with 

 the Organic Gardening and Faxming Research Center in Kutztown, Pennsyl- 

 vania to work on low-energy input farming systems with emphasis on 

 small farms. 



