The Philippine Rice Research (PhilRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have continued building a strong partnership to overcome the challenges in rice breeding, as discussed in the seminar “Breeding End to End: Integrating Genotype Data and Phenotype Data into a Unified Product Development Strategy” at the PhilRice Central Experiment Station, February 20. Dr. Joshua N. Cobb, lead of IRRI’s project on rice breeding for favorable environments, was the […]
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The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) sees no rice shortage in the country at least for the first quarter of 2018. Dr. Bordey, an economist and the Deputy Executive Director for Research of PhilRice said the Philippines produced a total of 19.3 million tons of palay in 2017 which is equivalent to 12.5 million tons of rice – the country’s highest production in history. The country also had a carry-over […]
