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 to and utilization by RCEF, NRP, and other rice stakeholders in the seed value chain. These two components shall be secured by robust and strengthened seed quality control, modernized seed purity analysis using high-throughput DNA fingerprinting, improved seed processing and storage conditions, and stricter crop health monitoring of all seed production areas within all our stations

Program Leader: Loida Perez

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 to all Filipinos at all times. It has two main components – the Integrated Crop Management (ICM) Project, which aims to create a package of technologies (POT) for transplanted and direct-seeded rice; the Digital Transformation (Dx) Project aims to develop an integrated rice crop management platform and scaled up RiceLytics platform.

Program goal is to scale out modern, mechanized, precise, and best-fit mature production technologies for transplanted and direct-seeded rice through a leveled-up ICM such as the PalayCheck System that is also digitized. These ICMs will be deployed using the farm cluster approach, starting in all PhilRice stations and then to RiceBIS communities in collaboration with local government units and relevant agencies to improve farmers’ productivity, make farming operations more efficient, and enable data-driven decision-making and governance

Program lead: Dindo King M. Donayre Sr SRS/Career Scientist | dkmdonayre@exchange.philrice.gov.ph | 09667943797

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 get necessary farm and product certifications. Process innovation focuses on capability enhancements and technologies to help them market their products and deliver services easier while reaching more customers. Marketing innovation creates, improves, and widens our farmers’ target buyers by linking them to institutional markets and introducing new marketing and distribution processes.

All these efforts are expected to develop rice and rice-based products/services investment portfolios for potential investors and small-medium-large business innovation models for diverse groups of farmers; strengthen partnerships both in the public and private spheres to increase competitiveness of farmers, and relevant policies to provide enabling mechanisms for our farmer-entrepreneurs. Overall, this program aims to revitalize rice-based farming communities through agro-enterprise model development with improved value chain efficiency.

Program Leader: Diadem Gonzales-Esmero