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                    [Title] => Cagayan sees hybrid rice as answer to its long-time wish
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Cagayan Governor Alvaro Antonio said he believes that “planting this  high-yielding rice variety is  the right  answer to my long-time wish  that someday,  our province  will be No. 1 in  rice production.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 742339 [Title] => NE farmer turns in impressive rice yields [Summary] =>

For several years, Eduardo Policarpio had been an inbred rice farmer in his family hometown in Barangay Palagay in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, until he switched sometime in 2003 to hybrid rice farming.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1737650 [AuthorName] => Sanny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730221 [Title] => Record palay harvest still unsurpassed [Summary] =>

Farmer Severino Payumo’s hybrid rice record harvest of 345.6 cavans per hectare in 2009, remains unsurpassed to this day.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1737650 [AuthorName] => Sanny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 640188 [Title] => Mindoro hybrid rice farmers receive cash, other awards [Summary] =>

The name of a rice farmer from Calapan, Oriental Mindoro was added to the long list of SL Agritech Corp.’s successful hybrid rice farmers who have scored unprecedented records in rice production.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097277 [AuthorName] => Manny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 625373 [Title] => Hybrid rice farmers turn in impressive yields [Summary] =>

Twenty hybrid rice farmers from Nueva Ecija, Ilocos Norte, Cagayan, Isabela, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Zamboanga del Sur, North Cotabato, Camarines Sur and Oriental and Occidental Mindoro have scored unprecedented records in rice production never before achieved by any farmers planting the traditional or inbred rice variety.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 579255 [Title] => Hybrid rice farmers turn in impressive yields, win prizes [Summary] =>

Five farmers in Occidental Mindoro who were adjudged top producers of hybrid rice  in this year’s dry cropping season, received  cash prizes and plaques of appreciation at simple rites held recently at the Calintaan municipal gym.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 502312 [Title] => Planting hybrid rice is more profitable, says farmer leader [Summary] =>

A leader of a farmers cooperative here disputed a claim of a former provincial official that planting hybrid rice is more expensive than producing the traditional rice variety.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321308 [Title] => Camarines governor urges farmers to shift to hybrid rice [Summary] => Camarines Sur Governor Luis Raymund F. Villafuerte Jr. yesterday rallied rice farmers in the province "to make it the country’s number one producer of hybrid rice.

"Rice production is a very important master plan in our food sufficiently plan. The objective of this program will all go to naught if we will not work together to attain such objective," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200006 [Title] => 248-250-267-300-319 cavans of rice per hectare and counting [Summary] => The numbers 248 and 250 and 267 and 300 and 319 refer to rice harvests per hectare by different farmers using Sagana 100 bio-organic fertilizer. Created by a lawyer (Ateneo de Manila graduate in 1960), the organic fertilizer has won for the inventor, Atty. Roberto S. Salido, several awards. High point for his product is the Department of Science and Technology’s (DoST) recognition of Sagana 100 as the Most Outstanding Invention of 1990.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665308 [AuthorName] => Ramon Ma. Epino [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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