A brief history of the rice improvement efforts in the Philippines emphasized the need of increasing rice productivity through new technologies and innovations in breeding. The rice landscape has significantly accelerated the rhythm of varietal improvement from the most primitive selection of naturally occurring variants using the traditional cultivars to hybridization process. Improving rice varieties at PhilRice has defined the breeding themes, techniques, strategies, and achievements as influenced by local […]

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the RCEF Extension Program have recently been targeted in a deceptive marketing ploy involving the creation of fake accounts.  Since Aug. 2, two pages have surfaced online falsely representing these public institution and government program, promoting a product called “Super Seed Organic Fertilizer” and misleading the public.  The fake pages falsely claim that Dr. Emil Q. Javier, a national scientist, endorsed the fertilizer […]