Pedro B. Escuro (2 August 1923 – 8 September 2000) was a Filipino scientist who specialized in genetics and plant breeding.

[3] As a young man, he was trained to do hard labour and everyday chores such as drawing water from a nearby deep well for household and domestic use.

In relation to crop production, he stated the there are limited resources for farmers to access such as available credit, high cost of fertilizers, irrigation, and lack of post harvest facilities near farms.

[6] At last, he suggested a birth control program to reduce population growth, limit the importation of rice during serious shortages of "palay" productions, prohibit the conferment of fertile lands and conversion of irrigated rice lands to non-agricultural purposes, and provide credit facilities accessible to farmers, etc.

[7] In 1973, Escuro, along with Benjamin Ona, started an intensive programme at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños in dry season to find suitable wheat varieties for improved agricultural production.