Tags: Agribusiness
By Anna Valmero
SAN MATEO, ISABELA— About a thousand farmers from Northern Luzon have graduated from the Palaycheck Field School of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) after finishing two seasons of learning PalayCheck farming principles and applying them on rice fields.
PalayCheck is an integrated crop management system developed by PhilRice with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) and other local partners to help farmers increase their yield.
With the country’s goal of reducing rice import and achieving rice self-sufficiency in 2013, PalayCheck is being used as a platform in improving rice productivity, said Dr. Eduardo Jimmy Quilang, PhilRice deputy executive director for development.
“There are ways to make our country self-sufficient. These include increasing rice production to two million tons a year and for us to reduce wastage in all rice forms – palay (paddy rice), bigas (milled rice), kanin (cooked rice)” he said.
Meanwhile, Fidela Bongat, branch manager PhilRice Isabela, is encouraging the farmer graduates to impart PalayCheck recommendations to fellow farmers in their hometowns to foster learning and increase rice productivity in the country.
The PalayCheck Field School was co-implemented with the municipality of San Mateo headed by Mayor Crispina Agcaoili, who noted the good partnership of PhilRice and the local government unit in spearheading the project.
Integrated in the Institute’s Developing and Packaging of Location-Specific Rice Technologies Development for Irrigated, Rainfed, and Upland Areas program, PalayCheck features eight recommendations covering practices from selecting seeds to harvesting.
Earlier, the Department of Agriculture announced its target to achieve rice self-sufficiency by the end of 2013 by implementing a set of interventions in farming and providing quality certified rice seeds.
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