DA-PhilRice revisited its vision, mission, and core values during its Strategic Planning Workshop held on May 25-26 to discuss the Institute’s new task environment. Challenges and opportunities, and possible thematic areas in rice research for development and extension (R4D&E) were also identified and fleshed out.
A plenary discussion examined DA-PhilRice’s status in implementing the Strategic Plan, and how the outputs are being translated in RiceBIS areas.
The session “What should DA-PhilRice and its partners do together in the next 5 years?” – provided information on the latest rice-related statistics and trends, particularly on production, yield, cost and returns, technology adoption, population, rice per capita consumption, and rice demand, as well as supply utilization projections in 2022 to 2028.
With the Corporate Services Division backstopping the Strategic Planning Team and coordinating all related activities, the initial draft of Plan 2023-2028 will be available by July 2022. It will be subjected to regional (island-wide) and national stakeholders’ consultations starting August 2022. The final plan should come out by December 2022.
