Written by the Web Team   Here’s good news to our local rice-eating comrades: Philippine rice is arsenic-safe. “Unlike some 60 rices and rice products in the US that the Food and Drug Administration reported to contain cancer-causing arsenic, locally grown rice varieties are safe from it,” said PhilRice chemist Joy Bartolome Duldulao. Our local rices are safe as our irrigation water is arsenic-free. Arsenic is a naturally occurring metal […]

Written by the Web Team   More than a thousand farmer-leaders showed their support to the National Year of Rice (NYR) 2013, an advocacy campaign to help achieve rice self-sufficiency, during the National Convention of Food Staples Producers held at Manila Hotel, Dec. 14. In their platform of action and advocacy, members of rural-based organizations, small water impounding systems, and irrigators’ associations, crafted activities that will help promote NYR 2013 […]

Written by the Web Team   PhilRice communication researcher Jaime A. Manalo IV won the Best Qualitative Conference Paper Award during the recent International Conference on Communication and Media ’12  (i-COME ’12) in Penang, Malaysia. i-COME ’12 aimed to address communication and media issues such as challenges in the socio-economic and political agenda, cultural integration, and social reengineering. The conference gathered more than 120 researchers, members of the academe, and […]