20th Annual Philippine Society of Soil Science and Technology Scientific Conference Bayfront, Cebu City, 10-12 May 2017 EDITHA EVANGELISTA   –   2nd Best Paper (Junior Category) HARRY JAY CAVITE   –   3rd Best Paper (Senior Category) ANNIE ESPIRITU AND EVELYN JAVIER   –   2nd Best Poster JOSEF MIKHAIL BAUTISTA, RONEL AGUILAR, MS. ANN JHUDEIL SANTOS, TRINIDAD FERNANDO, and JAYVEE CRUZ   –   3rd Best Poster 2017 Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human […]

We show you the future of rice farming at our FutureRice Farm! If you find yourself in the Science City of Muñoz, do come by PhilRice and go straight to the FutureRice Farm. Here, we show our work on farm automation, demonstration of yield-enhancing and cost-reducing technologies and cropping systems, and agritourism. Recently, we have had paddy arts featuring President Duterte and Vice-President Robredo—in the past, we’ve had AlDub, and […]

PhilRice’s Jaime A. Manalo IV delivered the talk on “Complexities in and tips on climate change communication”, 12 May at PhilRice’s Headquarters in Nueva Ecija. Jaime discussed common issues on CCC, and how these can be resolved. The talk put together insights from an extensive literature review conducted by Jaime’s team and their more than three years of work on climate change integration in the curriculum of secondary high schools […]

To closely engage young people in agriculture, PhilRice Batac and the Candon Youth Movement (CYM) conducted a series of training sessions involving 20 youth volunteers tagged as “Farmbassadors”. The youth volunteers were 15-25 years old who were mostly students, employed workers, and out-of-school youth from Candon City. From October 2016 until February this year, every Saturday, lectures and hands-on exercises on rice and vegetable farming were conducted. Hands-on sessions were […]