Rice Business Innovations System (RiceBIS 2.0) This continuing program is geared at developing rice and rice-based enterprises to address farmers’ needs in a resilient and sustainable manner, ensuring available and affordable rice. The initial RiceBIS program has introduced business innovations through three components: product, process, and market innovations. Product innovation improves the quality of rice and rice-based products and enhances service provision of farmer cooperatives and clusters by helping them […]

Scaling Modern and Adaptive Rice Technologies for Prosperous Farming Communities (SMART Farm) This is a new program that concentrates on innovating rice farming systems through the development of cutting-edge climate-resilient technologies in the whole value chain. These will address yield gaps, location-specific constraints, and data-use efficiency to maximize the quantity and quality of rice and, thus, ensure the availability and accessibility of nutritious, balanced, and safe rice and rice-based diets […]

Rice Seeds Systems (RSS) The Rice Seeds Systems Program targets improving and ensuring a sustainable and vigorous seed supply chain in the country, and ensures that high-quality seeds of the preferred rice varieties will be produced in sufficient quantities in a timely manner. The seed production components expected to deliver rice seed sufficiency are: inbred seed production and hybrid parentals/F1 seed multiplication; the resulting high-quality rice seeds are for distribution […]