Rice farmers from Salvador, Lanao del Norte receive hybrid seeds from DA-NorMin.

 

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office 10 (DA-RFO 10) under the helm of Regional Executive Director Carlene C. Collado, distributes hybrid rice seeds to farmers in Salvador, Lanao del Norte on May 22-23, 2023.

RED Collado shared, funded under the National Rice Program, the agency has allocated a total of 800 bags of hybrid rice seeds worth P4 million and handed them over to the local government unit (LGU).

The beneficiaries are registered in the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA), in which a farmer with 1 hectare received 1 sack (15 kilos) of hybrid rice seeds for wet season planting.

At the same time, the Rice Seed Monitoring System (RSMS) was introduced to farmers, which is a digital monitoring system created by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).

It aims to help efficiently monitor the distributed rice seeds and collect, combine, process, and analyze reliable and nearly real-time data regarding the positioning and distribution of DA-provided rice seeds for rice growers in an area.

Rice farmer Ernesto V. Torilla of Poblacion, Salvador, Lanao del Norte expressed his appreciation for the agency’s aid in increasing the production of hybrid rice for the local farmers in their area.

“Dako kayo ako pasalamat sa tabang [hybrid rice seeds] nga gihatag sa DA-10. Makatabang kini sa pagdugang sa produksiyon sa hybrid rice alang sa mga lokal nga mag-uuma sa among lugar,” Torilla said.

The said activity will also be conducted in other rice-producing areas in Bukidnon province.# (MPMTablon)