DASNR
International
Student of the Week
Home Country:
The Philippines
The Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an island nation located in Southeast Asia, with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine Archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country, with a population of 88 million. Its national economy is the 39th in the world with a 2007 gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$145 billion.
Filipinos are mostly of Austronesian descent, but there are significant Chinese, American, Spanish, and Arab minorities. There are more than 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide, about 11% of the total population of the Philippines.
The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century, and then a U.S. colony after the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The Philippines has many affinities with the Western world, derived mainly from the cultures of Spain, Latin America, and the United States. Roman Catholicism became the predominant religion, although the pre-Hispanic indigenous religious practices and Islam continue to flourish. The two official languages of the Philippines are Filipino, which is based on Tagalog, and English. Source: Wikipedia
About one-third of the total land area is classified as arable. Three-fourths of the cultivated area is devoted to subsistence crops and one-fourth to commercial crops, mainly for export. Farms tend to be small, and many areas are double-cropped. Soils are generally fertile, but 30% of the agricultural land is suffering erosion.
Roughly half the cultivated land is devoted to the two principal subsistence crops, palay (unhusked rice) and corn.
Commercial agriculture, dominated by large plantations, centers on coconuts and copra, sugarcane, tobacco, bananas, and pineapples. Coconuts are the most important export crop, accounting for 23% of world production; in 1999, 11,000,000 tons were produced. Copra production, in which the Philippines leads the world, rose from 1,470,000 tons in 1965 to an estimated 1,510,000 tons in 1999. As oil milling capacity rose, the domestic market for copra expanded, accounting for almost all of the output and leaving only marginal amounts for exportation. Source: Encyclopedia of Nations
Tee-Jay San Diego
Mach 6, 2008
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From the Department of Agricultural Economics...
This week’s international student of the week is Tee-Jay Alingus San Diego. He is a second year Master student in Environmental Science/Agricultural Economics. Tee-Jay was born in The Philippines; he speaks Hiligaynon, Filipino, and English
Tee-Jay is the GPSGA representative for the Society of Environmental Science; he is also member of the Toastmaster International Pacesetters Club OSU, and the GIS Club. He is a Fulbright scholar. Tee-Jay enjoys exercising at the Colvin Center during his free time. Tee-Jay came to the USA to pursue his graduate education after he was awarded a Fulbright grant. He chose OSU because the program fits well with his objectives and career goals. Tee-Jay future’s plans are to go back to The Philippines and work for the government, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in an office that administers the costal aquatic resources of the Region where Tee-Jay was born. He is planning to apply all the principles he learned during classes at OSU. Tee-Jay comes from a family of four children, he is the oldest. He has two sisters and one brother. Tee-Jay lost his father when he was seven years old. Tee-Jay is a devout Catholic who likes to attend daily mass at St. John’s Parish. Advisor: Dr. Arthur Stoecker Advice to international students: “As international students, we need to have a support group or trusted friends who are able to give us encouragements when we are down. Also, a well prepared and strictly followed weekly schedule is a good strategy to ensure a well-balanced academic life.”
Above Tee-Jay sharing knowledge with local children in The Philippiness Interview by Sandra Rodriguez
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