PHilMech Director Alvindia bags Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award ‘22
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. conferred the 2022 Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award to Director Dionisio G. Alvindia, PhD. of the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) recently.
The Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award is the most prestigious award for public service and is given to individuals or groups who made exceptional or extraordinary contributions resulting from a performance that had a nationwide impact on public interest, security, and patrimony.
It was Pres. Marcos himself who presented the award to Dir. Alvindia and several others, during the awards rites held at the Malacañang Palace on March 8, 2023.
It was learned that Dr. Alvindia is the very first Scientist I of PHilMech in 2010.
His status as a scientist climbed from Scientist I to Scientist III in 2014, and in 2021, Dr. Alvindia was conferred the title Scientist IV—the highest rank ever reached by a PHilMech employee in the scientific career system.
Being born and raised in a farming family and a graduate of agriculture majoring in crop protection, and plant pathology at Central Luzon State University in 1985, Dr. Alvindia grew up with a passion for agriculture and science most specifically in dealing with pests and diseases of crops.
Alvindia formulated a microbial control agent composed of different strains of beneficial bacteria which aims to provide an effective, sustainable, safe, and environment-friendly approach to managing postharvest diseases in various tropical crops. It likewise contains metabolite that serves as a biofertilizer resulting in a Phyto tonic effect on crops.
With these, he was granted property/copyright by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) as an inventor and author of scientific and technical books.
Dr. Alvindia, while being focused on achieving his scientific career goals, is generous enough to share the opportunities with his colleagues in PHilMech and encourage them to embark on becoming a scientist. He is an ardent believer in the relevance of mentoring and coaching young researchers and scientists.
As of today, eight other employees of PHilMech he mentored over the years and encouraged have followed in his scientific career path and become scientists themselves.
For his part, Dir. Alvindia sincerely thanked the President for the recognition given to him and promised to further improve his work for the benefit of thousands of farmers in the country.
