Bureau of Plant Industry (Philippines)

The Philippines' Bureau of Plant Industry, (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Industriya sa Paghahalaman,[4] abbreviated as BPI) is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for serving and supporting the Philippine plant industry sector.

[5] As created through series of laws, Executive and Administrative Orders, BPI has the primary tasks of: Through Executive Order 116 of President Corazon Aquino on January 30, 1987, BPI was reorganized to become a staff bureau under the production group of the renamed Department of Agriculture.

[1] On December 15, 2000, the Bureau of Plant Industry under the leadership of Atty.

BLO Umpar Adiong, was certified as ISO 9002 and considered as having a world class management system.

[citation needed] In 2014, Assistant Secretary Paz J. Benavidez II of the Department of Agriculture was named OIC Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry.