Not a joke

RICE. It says here that last year about 20 Vietnamese and Thai agriculture graduates from UP and 10 trainees from IRRI left the Philippines for home. An Ear informer said these Vietnamese and Thai agriculture graduates will immediately take to the farms to plant rice to be sold to the Phl government. "This is supposed to be a joke but it's true," the Ear informer said.

STUDENTS. Our informer said that every year Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese and Cambodian students come to the Phl to study agriculture at UP-Los Baños and the International Rice Research Institute. Returning home after graduation, they help their respective countries in rice production much of which are exported to Phl.