To empower women in rural communities and promote gender equality and inclusive society, a lecture on gender sensitivity in the RiceBIS Community in Rayuray, City of Batac was conducted today. Ms. Nataliza L. Llapitan of the Mariano Marcos State University, a Certified Region 1 GAD Resource Pool RGRP and Gender Mainstreaming and Monitoring System (GMMS) Focal Person was invited as the resource speaker. The lecture highlights the basic GAD concepts. […]

Inaasahan ni Carmensita Sanchez, city agriculturist ng Zamboanga City na sa tulong ng mga libreng certified inbred seeds at mga babasahin na ipamamahagi ng Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Programs sa darating na taniman ay mas tataas na ang ani at kita ng mga ka-Palay natin sa Zamboanga. Kwento nito, ito ang unang season na mapabibilang ang siyudad mula nang simulan ang programa noong 2019. Ito ay ayon sa pagpupulong […]

Featuring Women in Agriculture | RECELYN M. DORMIDO The MBA Forest Technical School Inc., formerly known as RMD Agri-Tourism Industries & Training Center, Inc. n Bago City, Negros Occidental, has trained and graduated 825 farmers since the establishment of their farm school in 2020

It’s a #PurpleWednesday at PhilRice Midsayap as it joins the nationwide and month-long celebration of Women’s Month with the theme: “WE for Gender Equality and Inclusive Society”. The station GADi team initiated a serenade session for all the ladies in the station, and champorado was also served for a healthier and more meaningful celebration. Mabuhay ang mga kababaihan! Happy Women’s Month, mga ka-palay! #PhilRiceMidsayap #PurpleWednesday

Roles of men and women farmers in F1 cultivation were determined and gathered through a participatory activity in La Paz, Abra facilitated by Dr. Ofelia Malonzo, GAD focal and R&D coordinator of the station on February 22, 2023. This gender mainstreaming initiative is part of the DA-PhilRice Isabela’s Gender and Development plan which ensures that inclusivity in terms of opportunities is promoted, and all interventions match the participants’ actual needs. […]

Anchored on the Institute’s mandate, DA-PhilRice continues to ensure that gender and development (GAD) is integrated in its new strategic plan to be implemented from 2023 to 2028. Projects under the new programs are evaluated through a checklist determining whether these are gender-sensitive and responsive. Implementers also ensure that harmonized GAD guidelines, which provide a framework for project development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation are followed. In a study conducted by […]

“Ready or not, tell yourself to jump.” When her husband passed away more than 10 years ago, Kathryn Barroga, was only left with one choice – oversee their 5-ha farm while taking care of her two children, then aged 19 and 12 years old. Kathryn, a physical therapist by profession, spent her childhood on a rice farm. Despite being exposed to farm life, her parents prioritized her education and discouraged […]

A short drive from the highway along San Antonio Weste in Lupao, Nueva Ecija is a field teeming with vegetables ready for harvest. Beside it is another field from which rice was freshly harvested. One would not think that these were barren seven months ago. Aila G. Grospe, farm owner, recalls that the 1.3-ha farm has been abandoned for 15 years since her father passed away. The sudden twist of […]

Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija – Students vowed to be “RICEponsible” in a National Rice Awareness Month (NRAM) event for kids held at Maligaya Elementary School, Nov. 25. The activity aimed to mold children not to waste rice and appreciate farmers’ hard work through creative presentations and by giving kid-friendly knowledge products about rice such as the “PalayKulayan” coloring book. “This event is wonderful for instilling the lessons related […]

Adding a vertical garden in a rice-based farming system augments sources of income; an established setup in the Palayamanan farm of the  Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) showed. Dr. Marissa V. Romero, lead of PhilRice’s project Modernized rice-based farming systems and value-adding technologies, said that integrating vertical garden in Palayamanan increases sources of food and income and enhances resiliency. Palayamanan integrates diverse crops and livestock in a farm […]