(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The DOST-Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI), which is implementing the program, said currently, there are 11 completed student projects benefitting from the program. “These beneficiaries have successfully implemented their ‘startups’ that promote sustainable farming, improved agricultural productivity, and resourceful agricultural innovations,” it said in a statement issued by DOST-Science and Technology Information Institute (STII). Based on the statement, the projects presented agricultural solutions on manufacturing organic fertilizers, producing mushrooms, processing of cacao to high value products, and reinventing indigenous agricultural materials. It noted that the Production of Multi-Purpose Indigenous Electronic LED Lampshade by the Cagayan State University in Lasam is one of DATBED’s assisted projects.