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On a large (252 hectares, 620 acres) experimental farm. In the 1960s and 1970s, the facility pioneered the development of fast-growing and large-yielding "miracle rice" varieties, along with controversial genetically-modified produced.
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization with its headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines, and offices in seventeen countries. IRRI is known for its work in developing rice varieties that contributed to the Green Revolution in the 1960s which preempted the famine in Asia.
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Biological & zoological exhibits. Hopefully it won't be a field trip day for all the Metro Manila schools.
Little streams and rivulets cut through the demonstration garden.
A campsite at the foot of Mount Makiling
Yamashita Shrine
In 1946, General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya", was executed by hanging at this site following his conviction for war crimes committed by Japanese forces during World War II, including the conversion of UPLB into a concentration camp. A small shed housing a simple tombstone with Japanese inscription now stands at the site. A few meters to the back is a similar shrine to General Masaharu Homma, who was hanged after being held responsible for Japanese atrocities during the Bataan Death March in 1942.
An elevated site where an optical illusion makes it appear that cars move on their own or in the opposite direction.