Written by the Web Team   The Department of Agriculture (DA), with the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) as lead, is kicking off a nationwide rice production competition dubbed as Palayabangan: The 10-5 Challenge starting this June. Palayabangan aims to level up the rice production standard to 10-5, that is, 10 tons/ha yield (or 200 cav) at only P5 input cost per kilogram of palay. The current average input cost […]

Written by the Web Team   PhilRice Los Baños trained 28 National Irrigation Systems staff and agricultural technicians (AT) from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist and Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Unit IV-A on the PalayCheck System at the Ouans Worth Farm and Family Resort, Lucena City, from May 6 to 10. This is just one of the series of trainings to be conducted under the Agricultural Support Component of […]

Written by the Web Team   The country is starting to resume its status as rice exporter. After 40 years, the Philippines is a rice exporter again, and shipped 35 metric tons (MT) of the staple consisting of 15 MT of organic black rice and 20 MT  of aromatic long grain rice to Dubai on May 6. A ceremonial send-off for Philippine rice exports led by the Department of Agriculture […]

Written by the Web Team   With over 400 participating researchers, Gina D. Balleras, an entomologist based at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Midsayap, won the 2013 Outstanding IAMURE Filipino Researcher award in the World Research Festival (WRF) held at  Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City on May 1-3. The WRF 2013 gives due recognition to “great achievements of individuals and institutions in the production, promotion, utilization and commercialization […]

Written by the Web Team   Returning scholars of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) are getting ready to make farming more profitable. In a recent meeting, executive director Eufemio T. Rasco Jr urged them to support  the “10-5 project,” PhilRice`s new initiative that aims to produce 10 t/ha at P5 input cost for a kilo of rice produced. Rasco said that average rice yield is around 4 t/ha while […]

United for rice. Supporting the National Year of Rice (NYR 2013), hundreds of Santiagueños in Isabela pledged to save rice during the Pattaraday festival, May 2.  Pattaraday, which means unity in Ybanag, is a celebration of the founding anniversary of Santiago City. Although Isabela is one of the country’s top 10 provinces cited as 2012 Agri-Pinoy Rice Achiever, its residences vowed to “eat what we could only consume and eat […]

Written by the Web Team   A bite for health; a toast for culture. The Asian Institute of Management Conference Center Manila and the Food for Life Bistro Concept Company, Inc. recently held a Tapuy Cooking and Cocktail Concoctions and Brown Rice Cooking Competition in Makati City. Fostering the advocacy of the National Year of Rice (NYR 2013), contest judge Alvin Lim said the “event doesn’t only show talents in […]

More hope. Farmers in Paracelis, Mountain Province are hopeful that their lands could be more productive after joining the season-long training on Palayamanan, a diversified integrated rice-based farming system. About 140 farmers from other parts in the Cordillera Administrative Region had graduated from the recently concluded training. Democrito B. Rebong II, branch manager of PhilRice Isabela, said the newly developed partnership with farmers will hopefully create a more progressive rice […]

Written by the Web Team   Weather consultant of one of the country’s big media network had urged local governments to support the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in promoting its technologies to the farmers. “I see good technologies that could help mitigate climate change while touring  around the PhilRice’s experimental fields. I hope that farmers will learn more of these technologies through the local government units across the country,” […]

Written by the Web Team   Bound by a commitment. Six private seed companies sealed their pledge to help the country become rice self-sufficient through commitment signing during the recent 1st National Hybrid Rice Congress. Representatives from SL Agritech Corporation, Bioseed Research Philippines, and Bayer CropScience said that they support the National Year of Rice 2013 (NYR 2013) by being a government’s “active partner in hybrid rice breeding work.” Syngenta, […]