On the very early morning of 20 Oct. 2014, PAGASA’s STC was invited to be the lone guest for the segment popularized by ace broadcaster Anthony Taberna at ABS-CBN’s morning show Umagang kay Ganda. Tackled was the irritable issue of Port Congestion and its ill-effects on supply and prices nearing Christmas.

At the Opening of its 21^st Edition at the World Trade Center on 9 Oct. 2014, Agrilink, Foodlink, Aqualink once again filled the halls with visitors to the rafters. By noon time, a press conference was held attended by no less than Department of Agriculture Sec. Proceso J. Alcala (4^th from Left) and PAGASA’s STC at the right-end of the Head Table. Sec. Alcala has attended all of this Show’s Openings since he sat as Head of the DA to show the DA’s partnership with the organizer, The Foundation for Resource Linkage and Development, Inc. (FRLD). PAGASA has been a Co-Organizer of this endeavor since 1999 and STC was appointed as the Show’s Chairman in 2007.

On 1 Oct. 2014, STC was invited by the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) academic community to a Roundtable Discussion on Food Security at the Offices of the Department of Agriculture, Elliptical Road, QC. Attending were the Deans and Professors of the different colleges at UPLB. Two of the Deans and a Dir. from the DA later awarded STC with a plaque and a token gift for his presentation on Marketing’s Important Role in getting fresh produce to the consumer’s table entitled: “Marketing and Post-Harvest.”