A Masbate official has announced that an 8t/ha-rice yield was harvested in one of their farms during the wet season following recommendations from the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Seed Program. “Our usual harvest is only 2.5t/ha. Thanks to the RCEF PalaySikatan techno demo in Mobo, we witnessed that 8t/ha yield is possible,” Provincial Agriculturist Graciana Tagnipez said.  PalaySikatan Farmer Cooperator Ruby Briones attributed her abundant harvest to the use […]

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Mapanique, San Pascual, Masbate – This dry season 2022, the PhilRice Bicol techno-demo team has established an additional 6-ha varietal technology demonstration site under the RCEF – Seed Program. This aims to help small-scale farmers in Burias Island become competitive and breeze into modern rice production through the use of high-yielding inbred varieties and new farming technologies and machinery. In partnership with the LGU of San Pascual and its municipal […]

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Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on 5 November 1985 (as amended) to help develop high-yielding and cost-reducing technologies so farmers can produce enough rice for all Filipinos.

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