Watch as Dr. Jauhar Ali presents at a special interest session on hybrid rice at the 2017 Asian Seed Congress held in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Rice farmers to receive free seeds, fertilizers for May 2020 main season
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will distribute seeds and fertilizers for free to rice farmers starting the 2020 wet cropping season to further boost the country’s rice production. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the full implementation of the P8.5-billion...
100-hectare demo farm to showcase hybrid rice technology now in Butuan City
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Hybrid rice model farm increases yield of Butuan farmers
BUTUAN CITY, April 7 -- Rice farmers in Barangay Lemon, this city begin to reap the benefits of planting hybrid rice. Last year, 40 rice farmers in the city accepted the challenge to be farmer-cooperators of the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Caraga's Hybrid Rice...
DA to focus on hybrid rice clustering
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DA backs hybrid rice technology for higher yield potential
An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday the adoption of hybrid seeds to improve rice production of farmers and increase their profit is “attainable and doable.” “There is already proof that it can happen. You ask farmers from Nueva Ecija,...