Posted by Web Team Mar - 30 - 2012
Written by the Web Team The Department of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) signed on March 28 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during the Lakbay-Palay conducted at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) based in Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. The MOU, which aims to increase rice yield while reducing farm expenses, stipulates that DA through PhilRice will train farmer-leaders in agrarian reform communities (ARCs) on […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 29 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the country’s lead in rice science and development, had conducted Lakbay-Palay with Atty. Virgilio R. de los Reyes, Department of Agrarian Reform secretary, as keynote speaker, March 28. “Lakbay-Palay is our first Institutional Field Day for the year and we’re happy that farmers shared their experiences on trying our technologies. This gave us feedback on how our technologies have […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 29 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Availability of information on improved rice farming may no longer be an issue, but access to information posed challenges. With the wealth of information on rice farming available on the websites of the Department of Agriculture, Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), and other attached agencies, farmers could optimize rice farming if they are connected to the Internet. However, most of them are not connected […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 27 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala urges about 1,000 farmers and students to help the country in its bid for rice self-sufficiency by sharing the practices and technologies they learned from the Science and Technology Based Farm (STBF) and Gulayan sa Barangay projects. During the farmers’ field day and graduation of the STBF farmer-beneficiaries and Gulayan sa Barangay student-participants in Calintaan, Occidental Mindoro last March […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 22 - 2012
Written by the Web Team North Cotabato farmers are now practicing synchronous planting after they tried a water-saving technology promoted by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the country’s lead agency in rice science and development. Engr. Flora Mae D. Respicio, principal engineer of M’lang/Malasila River Irrigation Systems (MLARIS), said controlled irrigation, a practical technique on saving irrigation water without decreasing yield, enabled farmers to share water supply with rice […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 22 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Health researchers said on Thursday they had found a troubling link between higher consumption of rice and Type 2 diabetes, a disease that in some countries is becoming an epidemic. Further work is need to probe the apparent association and diets that are notoriously high in sugar and fats should remain on the no-go list, they cautioned. “What we`ve found is white rice is […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 16 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Farmer-leaders of Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) project in Region III are getting ready for a grant turn-over through training facilitated by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, March 14-16. The training, a component of Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS) program, equips the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) in Central Luzon with skills needed in […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 13 - 2012
Written by the Web Team Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija – Crop specialist based at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in this city urges farmers to intensify rat control in areas where crops are nearing the booting stage. Leonardo V. Marquez of PhilRice Crop Protection Division (CPD) said farmers should start inspecting breeding grounds of rats as the female long-tailed rodents usually get pregnant in March. “Rat population […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 11 - 2012
Written by the Web Team About 500 rice farmers in Macalelon, Quezon will receive farm inputs from the proceeds of the advocacy run recently conducted by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Los Baños, Laguna. Noriel M. Angeles, organizer of Rice Self-Sufficiency Run, said PhilRice will provide seeds to the upland farmers as support to the Agri-Pinoy program of Department of Agriculture (DA), which aims to provide enough food […]
Posted by Web Team Mar - 7 - 2012
Development of location-specific technologies could now be made easier and more accurate with the application of a software program consisting of crop simulation models on rice science and technology. The software was presented to about 40 researchers of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in a three-day training held at the Institute’s Central Experiment Station, Feb27-29. To be proposed as component of PhilRice projects, Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) […]