DA-PhilRice Negros has partnered with the Central Philippines State University, Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, and the Provincial Agriculture Office in integrating  support tools to help farmers increase their rice yields and reduce production costs. These support tools include the MOET, MOET App, Leaf Color Chart, LCC App, and Rice Crop Manager Advisory Service. The local government units of EB Magalona, Calatrava, Don Salvador Benedicto, Murcia, Pontevedra, […]

Executive Director John C. de Leon has constituted a team to craft a “refreshed” DA-PhilRice Strategic Plan 2023-2028 with the theme, “Rethinking Rice Security in the New Normal: Sufficient Anywhere.” They are expected to “craft the immediate, medium-term, and long-term plans pertaining to our R4D, personnel, funding, and governance that will help PhilRice stay strong, relevant, and effective; improve its performance; and become more responsive to the circumstances, underlying trends, […]

Amidst the rising prices of fertilizers in the country, DA-PhilRice launched the balanced fertilization strategy during this dry season Lakbay Palay, April 6-7. Together with the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), Agricultural Training Institute, and Agriculture and Fisheries Information Division, DA’s campaign “Abonong Swak (Swak sa badyet, swak sa palay),” was promoted to urge farmers to complement inorganic fertilizer application with organic materials.  Nutrient experts from DA said […]

DA-PhilRice celebrated the 2022 National Women’s Month (NWM) this March to cap the 6-year recurring theme, “We Make Change Work for Women” focusing on the sub-theme: Agenda ng Kababaihan Tungo sa Kaunlaran. The institute’s activities were aligned with the three-point objectives of the NWM celebration: inform and engage women as stakeholders of government programs and services, create and facilitate platforms to discuss good practices, gaps, challenges, and commitments in pursuing […]

An intensive five-day training capacitated 28 farmer leaders and agricultural technologists from Tagudin, Ilocos Sur in applying integrated pest and nutrient management principles of the PalayCheck System for Irrigated Lowland Rice on Jan. 10-14. The training, under the RCEF- Rice Extension Services Program, helped improve the farmers’ knowledge and skills in accurate pest identification, disease diagnosis, farm management, and fertilizer application. The trainees also learned the use of ICT-based tools […]

DA-PhilRice pursued 66 research for development (R4D) projects in 2021 by sustaining essential operations despite the challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.  Executive Director John C. de Leon asserted strong linkages and close coordination with partners, the use of online communication platforms, and alternative measures and work arrangements helped the institute achieve most of its goals.  Eight new DA-PhilRice-bred inbred varieties were approved for commercial release: 3 for irrigated […]

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Batac and Isabela stations celebrated their 23rd and 30th anniversaries, respectively, early this year.  The Batac station was established on February 9,1999. It serves as the center for dryland agriculture R&D focusing on the improvement of rice-based cropping systems in semi-arid areas and development of on-farm water conservation and storage techniques. The National Tobacco Administration played a major role in its creation.  Based in San Mateo, the Isabela station officially […]

Agusan farmers now engaged in agro enterprise development Kitcharao and Magallanes in Agusan del Norte are starting to progress as farm communities operating nine agro enterprises on milled rice lending, internal savings lending, and bulk purchasing inputs.  The community improvement, which spurred from the structured business-  centric model of RiceBIS Agusan, is managed by the trained 400 farmers who follow the business model bank concept pilot-tested by the Esperanza RiceBIS […]

More than a thousand farmers, composed of 600 vegetable farmers, 240 rice-based farmers, and at least 500 households from Lupao, Nueva Ecija were introduced to vegetable production systems under the PAG-AHON Phase II Project.  Also known as the “Sa Palay at Gulay, may Ani, Hanapbuhay, Oportunidad, at Nutrisyon,” which ran from June to Dec. 31, 2021, the municipality-wide vegetable production initiative included crop diversification, the establishment of community food hubs, […]