an engineer too of the agro hydrology and rain simulation section of the bureau of soil and water management or the b uh bswm and he will give us an overview of the bswm automatic weather stations and we'll discuss the innovations that are contributed to the philippine agriculture engineer expantio please uh expanto please take it away yep uh good morning can you see my screen now yes all right i'm just gonna press the presentation okay once again good morning to all the attendees of this seminar and before i begin i would like to do this myself once again i'm patrick aspanto from the bureau of soils and water management of the department of father culture and today i will be presenting about the automatic weather stations and how this aws can be used for agriculture 4.0 this will be the outline of my presentation first i'm going to quickly discuss the mandate of the bureau of soils and water management in the next i'll be discussing the milestones of the agro met presentation agro met stations and um the description of how this aws work and the importance and the uses of aws in agriculture and lastly the challenges and the way forward for the automatic weather stations so the bureau of soils and water management has a mandate and through our section the agro hydrology and rain simulation section under the water resources management division is mandated to facilitate and provide assistance in the establishment of agro met stations and other relevant instruments such as the automatic weather stations soil moisture sensors as sources of real-time microclimatic information in different agroclimatic and of course to process and analyze the collected data from these sensors the bswm as early as 1979 started the establishment of this agro met stations and included in the agro met stations are these instruments and the parameters that are being measured which are air temperature evaporation rainfall atmospheric pressure humidity dew point surface wind speed and direction solar radiation sunshine duration and cloudiness so these are the instruments that you can see in uh in a typical agro met station so for those students who are near the up los baños if you happen to visit the the national agro met stations of up lb or the one that are installed in in the eerie you can see these instruments so they are all manually manual instruments and the data are collected are also the data obtained are manually collected so looking from the perspective of the bswm we have these milestones so as i've mentioned earlier the bswm started installation of agro met stations as early as 1979 and from from that year onwards the first aws for automatic weather station installed was in 2003 there were four which was funded by the acr project and the next one was in 2008 so it was funded under the georgas project acr is funded by the australian government georgas is funded
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### Assessment ###
The text mentions when BSWM first started installing agro-meteorological stations, which is a clear factual piece of information that could be of interest.

### Query ###
When did the Bureau of Soils and Water Management begin installing agro-meteorological stations?
When did the Bureau of Soils and Water Management begin installing agro-meteorological stations?