To increase agricultural productivity, 19 participants from Africa along with 11 Filipino farmers undergo a two-month training at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, starting Aug. 6. Jason Beebout, project leader for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Collaboration on Training for Sub-Saharan countries, said the internationally-funded activity is hoped to help in achieving food security in this southern of […]

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the Regional Crop Protection Center (RCPC), Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA), and the Department of Agriculture- Regional Field Office III (DA-RFO III) are intensifying pests field control this wet season through the Oplan Iwas Peste: Ang madiskarteng magsasaka, mataas ang ani at kita recently launched in Nueva Ecija. Leonardo Marquez, crop protection expert at PhilRice, said the campaign aims to educate farmers on […]

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is ensuring the availability of quality seeds through training conducted at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, July 20-25. Dr. Karen Eloisa T. Barroga, PhilRice acting deputy executive director on development, said the five-day training on producing high-quality inbred rice seeds and farm mechanization emphasized on attaining a rice-secure country. “[DA agencies] work together to attain the vision […]

Engineers and researchers from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) bagged the major awards at the 29th Philippine Agricultural Engineering Week, 15th International Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Conference and Exhibition, and 68th Philippine Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers (PSABE) Annual National Convention held in Davao City, April 28. The team of Engr. Kristine S. Pascual from the Rice Engineering and Mechanization Division won the first place award under the […]

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is helping create a better agriculture industry through communication support to the policy-makers. Myriam G. Layaoen, lead of the Science-Based Policies in Advancing Rice Communities (SPARC) program, said that the Institute is assisting policy makers in crafting policies through information materials launched on April 27 in the Department of Agriculture (DA) compound, Quezon City. “These materials published data derived from PhilRice-conducted studies across the […]

  About 1, 500 participants composed of farmers, students, extension workers, and researchers will participate in this year’s week-long Lakbay Palay Dry Season at the PhilRice Central Experiment Station in Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, April 3- 6. Lakbay palay is a field day held by PhilRice twice a year (during the dry and wet seasons) to showcase its rice farming technologies to a wide range of rice […]

Despite reports on La Niña expecting to last until March from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), climate change experts from PhilRice advise farmers to remain calm as the effects may not be detrimental but at the same time urge them to be always prepared. “The effects of La Niña vary around the world. In the Philippines, it brings more rains while in other countries, the usual […]

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) sees no rice shortage in the country at least for the first quarter of 2018. Dr. Bordey, an economist and the Deputy Executive Director for Research of PhilRice said the Philippines produced a total of 19.3 million tons of palay in 2017 which is equivalent to 12.5 million tons of rice – the country’s highest production in history. The country also had a carry-over […]

In the light of the skyrocketing price of petroleum and fuel brought about by the recent implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law or Republic Act 10963, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has offered some technologies to help farmers maximize their income despite the incidence. Dr. Arnold S. Juliano, head of the PhilRice Rice Engineering and Mechanization Division (REMD), has recommended the use of renewable […]

Engr. Evangeline Barroga Sibayan, 62, has served the agriculture industry for 37 years. Before her retirement this year, she shares some memories that made her career remarkable as well as some plans for herself and her family. Vangie is a Supervising Science Research Specialist at our Rice Engineering and Mechanization Division (REMD). Prior to joining PhilRice, she was an agricultural engineer, for 10 years, at Maligaya Rice Research and Training […]