A Surigao del Sur town positioning itself as an agri-eco tourism hub is adding high-zinc rice to its nutrition and food security efforts, with 34 farmer-partners set to cultivate the variety under a new partnership with the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice). Cantilan formalized the initiative through a memorandum of agreement signed recently during the municipality’s Farmers’ and Fisherfolk’s Month celebration, following the adoption of a local resolution promoting the […]

Rice varieties such as NSIC Rc 506, Rc 508, Rc 436, Rc 480, Rc 402, Rc 216, and Rc 160 were named as “farmers’ favorites” during the 2022 Wet Season PalaySikatan Farm Walk and Farmers’ Forum on Aug. 23-26. Through the technology demonstration of the RCEF-Seed Program, crop performances of high-yielding varieties were exhibited to over 400 farmer-visitors in six technology demonstration sites in Davao del Sur, Misamis Oriental, and […]