Department Of Agriculture - Bohol Experimental Station (DA- BES)

Overview

The Department of Agriculture – Bohol Experimental Station (DA-BES) is a research facility in Barangay Gabi, Ubay, Bohol, operated by DA Regional Field Office 7 (DA-RFO 7) since its establishment in 1975 — one of the longer-running agricultural research posts in the region. Its work centres on endemic crop cultivation, province-wide crop and livestock performance profiling, and collaboration with other DA units and Bohol LGUs on farming-improvement programs.

Location

Barangay Gabi, Ubay, Bohol. Ubay is a municipality on the eastern coast of Bohol, approximately 80 km from Tagbilaran City.

[FACT NEEDED: Precise road access and coordinates within Barangay Gabi not in source.]

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, take a bus or van to Ubay (approximately 2–2.5 hours). From Ubay town, hire a habal-habal to Barangay Gabi.

[FACT NEEDED: Whether the facility accepts public visitors or requires an appointment with DA-RFO 7.]

Practical Info

• Established: 1975
• Operating body: Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office 7 (DA-RFO 7)
• Primary function: agricultural research and crop/livestock performance assessment
• Collaborating partners: other DA units and Bohol LGUs

The station maintains a public Facebook presence (“DA - Bohol Experiment Station | Ubay”), indicating some level of public-facing communication, though no independently published visitor policy, tour schedule, or fee information was found in this research pass. [TO ENRICH: Public visitor access policy, guided tour availability, contact details, and days open to educational visits.]

What to Expect

This is a working government research station, not a garden built for visitors — the interest is in seeing applied agricultural science up close: trial plots, livestock assessment work, and yield-improvement research that feeds directly into farming practice across Bohol’s provincial agencies.

[TO ENRICH: Specific crops currently under research, demonstration plot availability, and whether the station has a visitor reception area.]

Notes

Listed in BPTO Table 11 under tourism type “Industrial Tourism,” category “Agro-Forestry.” The station was established in 1975, making it one of the longer-running agricultural research sites in the region. Other Ubay area industrial tourism sites include the DBP Forest (Barangay Calanggaman) and the BFAR Multi-Species Marine Hatchery.

[FACT NEEDED: no independently published source describing visitor access, tour availability, or a specific contact for DA-BES was found beyond the facility’s own social media presence.]

DA - Bohol Experiment Station | Ubay (Facebook), accessed 2026-07-17.