Written  by the Web Team   About 500 rice farmers in Macalelon, Quezon will receive farm inputs from the proceeds of the advocacy run recently conducted by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Los Baños, Laguna. Noriel M. Angeles, organizer of Rice Self-Sufficiency Run, said PhilRice will provide seeds to the upland farmers as support to the Agri-Pinoy program of Department of Agriculture (DA), which aims to provide enough food […]

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Development of location-specific technologies could now be made easier and more accurate with the application of a software program consisting of crop simulation models on rice science and technology. The software was presented to about 40 researchers of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in a three-day training held at the Institute’s Central Experiment Station, Feb27-29. To be proposed as component of PhilRice projects, Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) […]

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Written by the Web Team   An alternative technology that could help reduce production cost and mitigate climate change will be pilot-tested in the agrarian reform communities in two towns in Nueva Ecija, an agreement signed on Feb 27 at the Central Experiment Station of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) stipulates. In a Memorandum of Agreement signed by the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and […]

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Written by the Web Team   More than 3,000 elementary pupils in Nueva Ecija had learned the value of rice in an educational tour, sponsored by the province’s Department of Education, at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Science City of Muñoz, Feb. 24. “I learned that rice has to survive many challenges before our mother could cook this food. It’s not good to waste it,” 10-year-old Alyza Manglo said. […]

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Written by the Web Team   The development group of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is helping the country achieve rice self-sufficiency through its initiatives conducted last year, which were presented during the recent three-day Development Roadmap Planning Workshop held at the Institute’s Central Experiment Station in Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. The initiatives, which included trainings, extension modalities, and the completed location-specific technology development project (LSTD), contributed to […]

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Written by the Web Team   Returning scholars of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) had identified farmers’ benefits from using cellphones and the prospect of tapping the youth in disseminating agriculture information through Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). Hazel V. Antonio, who finished MSc in International Development Studies in Wageningen University and Research Centre in The Netherlands, and Jaime A. Manalo IV, an alumnus of Communication for Social Change program at […]

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Written by the Web Team   The farming circle has probably reached the tipping point where the word “irrigation” is almost synonymous to pulling off wads of cash. Not in anyone’s wildest imagination could it be equated to being low cost. But then, that is probably why we need to imagine further. Irrigation can be low cost as the PhilRice researchers based in Batac, Ilocos Norte would prove. With the […]

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Written by the Web Team   President Benigno S. Aquino III has thus far appointed three new members of the Board of Trustees (BOT), the highest policy-making body of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice). Replacing former trustees who have finished their terms, Dr. Teodoro C. Mendoza now represents the academic community, Dr. Ma. Luisa R. Soliven, science community, and Edicio G. Dela Torre, consumer sector. Mendoza comes from the […]

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     Written by the Web Team Selected young farmers across the country are bound for a training in Japan to be business entrepreneurs after they complete a 75-day pre-departure orientation course under the Young Filipino Farmers Training Program (YFFTP). A part of the pre-departure training was conducted at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), Jan. 30-Feb 3. The PhilRice training, the second activity in the pre-departure orientation course, covered operating […]

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Written by the Web Team   Rice scents, anyone? With inspiration from modern expensive scents in the market, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) had added more value to rice by creating its line of scents that are environment-friendly and non-allergenic. Available in 20 feminine, masculine, and unisex fragrances, the rice perfumes are produced using semi-organic materials that include glutinous rice – the type of rice used as raw material […]

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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