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Dr. Lacsina is a results-oriented international agricultural development
specialist with demonstrated expertise in sustainable agriculture in
tropical, subtropical, temperate and arid land production systems. He is a
Certified Professional Agronomist (CPAg), and a member of the American
Registry of Certified Professionals in Agronomy, Crops and Soils. His
proven strengths include research and agribusiness project
conceptualization, planning, development, implementation, management and
people development in domestic and developing country settings.
Projects have included technology transfer, agribusiness strategies,
research and international agriculture development focused specifically on
hands-on, field level as well as formal classroom settings. He has proven
to be unusually sensitive to people at all economic and socio-cultural
levels both domestically and in developing countries.
As a scientist at the world-renown International Rice Research Institute (IRRI),
actively participated in various research projects that led to the
development, transfer and adoption of appropriate rice production
technology that fueled the so-called “GREEN REVOLUTION” in Asia. As a
result, yield of rice doubled and quadrupled in chronically food deficient
countries of South and Southeast Asia which led to self-sufficiency in
rice, a major staple of these regions.
As Associate Professor at Virginia State University on assignment with
USAID-funded Nepal Agricultural Research and Production Project (ARPP),
Dr. Lacsina developed and implemented various formal classroom training
programs for station-based scientists responsible for designing and
conducting on-station and on-farm research trials and computer
applications in agricultural research. He provided technical assistance in
strengthening the Kingdom’s agricultural research capabilities in line
with Nepal’s Basic Need Program. This involved manpower training and
development, overhauling existing programs, facilities and infrastructure.
As Senior Agronomist / Manager of Agricultural Technology for a US Fortune
500 corporation, provided key technical expertise on agronomic, soil and
pest management aspects of on-going and potential agricultural development
projects in the US and developing countries in Latin America, the
Caribbean, West Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Professional employment has included Dalgety Produce, Inc., Virginia State
University, Ball Corporation, International Rice Research Institute, and
Iowa State University.
He received his PhD and MSc in agronomy (crop production and physiology)
from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA (1980), and his BA in agronomy
from the University of the Philippines. Dr. Lacsina is a member of the
American Society of Agronomy, American Society for Horticultural Science,
Weed Science Society of America, Council on Agricultural Science and
Technology, and Gamma Sigma Delta (Honor Society of Agriculture).
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