Posted by Web Team Jun - 28 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the country’s lead agency in rice research and development, is calling on scientists, researchers, and thesis students to avail of the Institute’s research fellowship program. Dr. Eufemio T. Rasco Jr, PhilRice executive director, said the program aims to provide career growth opportunities while helping the country achieve rice self-sufficiency. Research proposals fostering rice science for improved productivity and profitability […]
Posted by Web Team Jun - 26 - 2012
Written by the Web Team PhilRice management and staff had entered into a new Collective Negotiations Agreement (CNA), which aims to boost employees’ welfare and improve the workplace. Eufemio T. Rasco Jr, PhilRice executive director, and Aurora M. Corales, Association of PhilRice Employees (APE) president, agreed on the third CNA after deliberations on six new articles and 49 new or improved sections formulated by the Workplace Consultative Council and […]
Posted by Web Team Jun - 19 - 2012
Written by the Web Team An alternative farm technique that could help reduce rice production cost is benefitting farmers in three agrarian reform communities in Talavera, Nueva Ecija. No-tillage technology or preparing the field without plowing or harrowing had lessened land preparation time and expenses of farmer-cooperators in Dimasalang Sur, Brgy. Homestead II, and San Ricardo. In a Farmers’ Field Day and Forum in Brgy. Dimasalang Sur and Homestead, […]
Posted by Web Team Jun - 5 - 2012
Written by the Web Team An expert of Japan-Philippines technical cooperation project had introduced a technique that aims to efficiently disseminate agricultural technologies in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Dr. Hideyuki Kanamori, senior advisor of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), trained 35 ARMM-based extension workers on Process Description (PD) method in a recent training of trainers (TOT) series. The training, co-implemented by Philippine Rice Research Institute […]