This month we feature PhilRice Scientist Dr. Roel R. Suralta. Doc Roel’s papers on root plasticity in rice are published in top-tier journals and have hundreds of citations from researchers in the Philippines and abroad. Colorful college life Coming from a small community high school in Camotes Islands in Cebu, Doc Roel was dwarfed by the atmosphere at the Visayas State University (then Leyte State University) when he entered college […]

PhilRice Executive Director Sailila E. Abdula was recently recognized as Outstanding Rice Scientist of the Philippines by the ASEAN Rice Science and Technology Ambassadors Award Search Committee. “As a government employee, this means that the we are doing what is expected from us to help the people and having this award is more than just an achievement, it is also a challenge for me to continue doing researches to help […]

Over 500 farmers, students, and local stakeholders learned about hybrid rice and combine harvester during PhilRice Midsayap’s Lakbay Palay, July 20. “Our ambition is to be rice-secure and competitive. With hybrid rice and mechanization, we hope to attain this goal in the next few years,” PhilRice Acting Executive Director Sailila E. Abdula emphasized.  Hybrid rice is a type of rice that has been bred from two very different parents. The […]

We eat, work, and pray every day. Why not add exercise in between? Dr. Riza “Reeze” Abilgos-Ramos shares to us her journey as a nutritionist and her insights on work-life balance. Dr. Ramos is a supervising science research specialist at PhilRice’s Rice Chemistry and Food Science Division. Becoming a nutritionist During her childhood, Dr. Abilgos-Ramos was skinny and very sickly. She was among those who lined up for their school’s […]

Globally, rice pests and diseases will remain as formidable threats to food production efforts. This means low rice yield for farmers, which translates to heightened poverty incidence and food supply imbalances. Dr. Jennifer T. Niones takes off from these challenges in doing host-pathogen interaction studies, leading to development of disease resistant varieties. She is a Supervising Science Research Specialist at PhilRice’s Crop Protection Division. Agri interest “I knew right away […]