Breaking free dance. The Cebu Dancing Inmates support the National Year of Rice (NYR 2013) by performing the Palay Dance. The Palay Dance depicts farm activities such as plowing, monitoring, and harvesting. It also includes steps promoting the use of farm machines such as drum seeders, hand tractor, and reaper. The three-minute dance aims to encourage the public to be RICEponsible. A RICEponsible citizen eats brown rice, substitutes rice with […]

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Written by the Web Team   Responding to the call to be RICEponsible, artists from the GMA Network Artist Center recited the Panatang  Makapalay (Pledge for Rice), which will soon be aired on radio and in the television. Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal, Louise delos Reyes, Julie Anne San Jose, Kylie Padilla, and Mark Herras said that as Filipnos, they pledge not to waste rice and consider serving or ordering rice […]

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Rice to the challenge. Farmers and producers commit themselves to fair competition by signing a contract of participation, Dec. 3, for the Palayabangan: the 10-5 Season 2 challenge.  The competition, which started in the wet season of 2013, aims to produce 10t/ha yield at P5 input cost for every kilo of palay. Current average yield is about 4t/ha while input cost is about P11/k of palay. Joining this season`s competition […]

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Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on 5 November 1985 (as amended) to help develop high-yielding and cost-reducing technologies so farmers can produce enough rice for all Filipinos.

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