To fortify rice-farming communities against the challenges of a changing climate, PhilRice Los Baños distributed over 260 seed packs of climate-smart varieties to Quezon farmers this wet season. Each pack had 5kg of seeds of rainfed varieties such as NSIC Rc 416 and 426 or saline rices Rc 330 and 338. Reports showed that majority of the farmers favored adopting climate-smart varieties, demonstrating eagerness not only to continue planting the […]

PhilRice Los Baños evaluates available varieties to ensure that these are high-performing location-specific rice for the Southern Tagalog Mainland. The station and DA-Regional Field Office CALABARZON stated that the study, which will be conducted for 1-2 years, assesses the performance of rice under irrigated, rainfed, and saline-prone ecosystems. The best performing varieties will be recommended to the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) as bases for the varieties to be distributed […]

With an aim to expand the reach of services to seed growers and farmers in CALABARZON, DA-PhilRice Los Baños signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Quezon National Agricultural School-Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (QNAS-TESDA) on Aug. 15. “This partnership is a course of action to achieve TESDA’s Abot Lahat vision,” said TESDA Vocational School Superintendent Ceferino R. Tolentino Jr. Aside from supplementary supply of seeds, the objective of […]