Written by the Web Team   The capacity-building component of the Agricultural Support Component of the National Irrigation Sector Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (NISRIP) has attained 82% completion of the targeted 11 batches for the Training of Trainers (TOT) component. The TOT has so far taught 190 Agricultural Technologists (ATs) and National Irrigation Sector (NIS) personnel on Integrated Crop Management using the PalayCheck System. Trainings mainly focused on nutrient management, […]

Written by the Web Team   Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is currently conducting extensive research on brown and pigmented varieties of rice (black and red) to determine how these grains can help address malnutrition in the Philippines, especially among marginalized groups. Dr. Riza Ramos, head of the Rice Chemistry and Food Division of PhilRice, said that the study on brown rice is being conducted to determine what are the […]

Written by the Web Team   The National Year of Rice (NYR 2013) is supporting the National Nutrition Council’s End Hunger campaign by helping the country achieve self-sufficiency in rice, the main staple food of Filipinos. The National Nutrition Council (NCC) lead the observance of Nutrition Month in July with the theme Secure enough food to end hunger and malnutrition. To drum up support for Nutrition Month from the public […]

Written by the Web Team   Studies on submergence tolerant rice and clonal propagation of nipa bested more than a hundred researches during the recent 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). The study, titled,  Submergence tolerant rice: mitigating the effect of climate change in flash flood prone areas in the Philippines by  Loida Perez, Teodora Mananghaya, Verna Dalusong, Henry Ticman, Joselyn Bagarra, and […]

Written by the Web Team   The Korean Project on International Agriculture (KOPIA) Center in the Philippines, which is hosted by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), is expected to intensify its efforts to improve rice varieties and cultivation in the country with the appointment of its fourth director. Incoming KOPIA Director Dr. Wonha Yang said that the goal of his stay in the Philippines is to help Filipino farmers increase […]

Written by the Web Team   As the country sees the prospect of achieving 103-percent rice self-sufficiency for the first semester of this year, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the country’s lead in rice science and development, is strengthening its researches on organic rice farming to help sustain the country’s rice production in the coming years. The rice self-sufficiency projection was stated in a memorandum to Agriculture Secretary Proceso […]

Written by the Web Team   A simple formula forwarded by a Department of Agriculture official showed the country achieved a 98-percent self-sufficiency level in rice last year. A memorandum to Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala by Assistant Secretary Dante S. Delima said with improved crop yields, the country may actually be gunning for 103-percent self-sufficiency for the first semester of this year. This figure would beat the schedule for […]

Written by the Web Team   Promoting brown rice, an advocacy of the National Year of Rice (NYR 2013), kicked off this year’s Diabetes Awareness Week Campaign in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija. The Diabetes Awareness Week is an annual campaign started in 1993 through the Presidential Proclamation 213 issued by former President Fidel Ramos. In Nueva Ecija, the activity is led by the Nueva Ecija Medical Society (NEMS), a component […]

Written by the Web Team   Where do you teach the public how to conserve rice, or be RICEponsible? Definitely, in a place where the mind is conducive for learning. The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in  partnership with the Bonifacio Art Foundation unveiled the National year of Rice (NYR2013) exhibit at the Mind Museum, June 25. The Mind Museum, located in Global City, Taguig, is the first science museum […]

Written by The Manila Times   While the Aquino administration sees the Philippines achieving record palay (unmilled rice) production this year, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is asking Filipinos to be “RICEponsible” which can help the country achieve 100-percent self-sufficiency in the staple. With the year 2013 dubbed as the “National Year of the Rice (NYR2013) through Presidential Proclamation No. 494,” the Department of Agriculture also plans to tap […]