PhilRice launched this week its first INTRANET service, allowing its employees to access various online and automated services in one central location. The INTRANET is like a portal to the entire PhilRice community, which provides resources, calendar, bulletins and ads, chat, email, memos, library, links to social media accounts, and more links as new systems come up. Its core systems were also upgraded and interconnected and are now accessible through […]

Early this month, our acting executive director, Dr. Sailila E. Abdula, shared the Institute’s milestones and its new goals. In this message, he encourages us to support the upcoming Rice Tariffication Act and be SAILILA: Strengthen and Advance Innovation, Linkages, Learning, and Advocacy. Read his full message below: Peace be with us and good morning! It’s another challenging, exciting, and successful year for PhilRice. We can give each other a […]

Can Noche Buena be merry without food? Hardly! That’s why we always try to prepare the most delectable meals no matter how tiring and economically difficult it is. Why not? The yuletide season only happens once a year. Because food is life for the Filipinos during Christmas, we like to make the best recipes for our family and friends. Here are three healthy recipes from two international award-winning PhilRice cookbooks, […]

While wisdom comes with age, the youth, when given the right opportunity, can actually become a strong force in the farming sector.

Farmers with insufficient water supply are advised to adopt early-maturing varieties or with maturity days less than 110 this coming dry season. According to Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice)’s in-house agriculturist and Text Center lead agent Fredierick M. Saludez, early-maturing varieties require lesser water, as they can mature faster than other inbred varieties. “A rice crop that matures in 100 days will require approximately 1000mm of water while a crop […]

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. And in celebration of His coming, lights flood around the world, even in rice farming communities in Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija.  In Brgy. Maligaya, the tower of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) sends off a sense of happiness as lighting the structure gathered the rice farming households, researchers, and the general public on Dec. 3. […]

As PhilRice turns 33 this November, some may say that PhilRice is a government agency, productive in terms of rice research for development (R4D). Others may claim that it’s an Institute housing high caliber researchers and staff consistently receiving recognitions and accolades over the years. Still others may point to its being an instrument in the country’s aim to achieve rice security and rice self-sufficiency. While these may contribute to […]

The June 11, 2018 issue of Time Magazine captivated the world’s attention after it featured nearly a thousand drones to form its cover design. Beyond this futuristic cover, the use of technology in medicine, photography, and historical preservation were featured in the special reports uploaded in the magazine’s website. Some of those uses, like aerial photography, are already penetrating the Philippines with different possibilities especially for the agriculture sector. These […]

Farmers in Isabela, one of the country’s top rice producer, are reaping the benefits of practicing direct seeding, a crop establishment method, in which pre-germinated seeds are sown directly onto the soil surface. Helen Pasicolan, lead of the direct-seeded rice technology promotion at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in San Mateo, Isabela said that farmers in their demonstration sites gained high yield and reduced their production cost through direct-seeding using […]

What’s more compelling for a millennial to stay at work longer than her peers? Jungie Amacanin- Diamsay, Dangal ng PhilRice Outstanding Development Worker in the Junior Service Contractors category, had been working in the country’s lead agency on rice research and development for five years, while statistics show that 4 in every 10 of her generation will resign from workplace in two years. “I love the entirety of my work- […]