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Rice Lodging Reduces To The Minimum By Eliminating Tillage In Land Preparation
Sep 20th
Rice crop lodging is a common sight to ricefields which could not withstand to heavy rains and strong winds.
Tagged as: preparation of land for rice, rice lodging, ripe grains of palay, strong wind cause lodging of rice
Is The Philippine Rice Self Sufficiency Target Achievable By 2013?
Sep 9th
The P-Noy government program on achieving rice self sufficiency by 2013 is commendable.
Tagged as: marcos rice philippines, neda vs da on rice self sufficiency, adlai yield in philippines, adlai yield in the philippines, DAs food self-sufficiency program credit support
Rice Straw, To Be Utilized As Raw Material For Power Generation
Aug 29th
Rice is the chief staple crop of the Philippines and annually the country harvests an average of 15.2 million metric tons of rice, leaving 11.3 million tons of rice straw to spare for productive use.
Tagged as: rice straw in the philippines, rice straw indonesia, feasibility of collecting rice straw for power plant generation, feasibility study for rice production in the philippines, feasibility study straw
A New Green Revolution Through Green Super Rice Propagation
Feb 1st
Rice is a staple food for nearly half the globe and provides a fifth of all the calories humanity consumes.
Two Powerful Typhoons Hit Multi-billion Peso Damages To Philippine Agriculture
Oct 3rd
The Department of Agriculture (DA), has reported, the recent two successive powerful typhoons that run havoc to Luzon for a week have damaged agricultural crops amounting to Php 7 billion pesos (US$ 163 million dollars).
Japan Discovers Trace Of Radiation In Their Rice, Initiates Tests
Sep 26th
Japan is asking for more test on rice grown near the damaged nuclear plant facility after discovering a high levels of radiation noted on the country’s chief staple crop, according to government officials.
Genome Researchers Point Out That Rice Originates From China
May 4th
Genome researchers has concluded in a study through large-scale gene re-sequencing indicate that domesticated rice may have first appeared as far back as approximately 9,000 years ago in the Yangtze Valley of China.
Brown Rice Is Good For Diabetics
Mar 19th
Rice is not a staple food in the US and the Harvard study is one of the first to distinguish between white rice and brown rice consumption in the country.
Tagged as: Brown Rice Good for Diabetics
Native Rice To Save Deteriorating Ifugao Rice Terraces
Sep 28th
The growing demand of glutinous rice in the US has encouraged more farmers to propagate and go into commercial production of various native varieties of rice in the different provinces in the Cordillera region.
Tagged as: ifugao rice terraces, Demand for native rice in the Philippines, ifugao GDP
The Various Benefits Of Adlai As A Staple Crop
Sep 23rd
Adlai known also as Job’s tears with a scientific name of Coix lacryma-jobi L. is a freely branching upright plant that grows to three feet tall and is being propagated through seeds.
Tagged as: Adlai, adlai plant, adlai crop, adlai crops, coix lacryma-jobi benefits