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[Title] => New book on rice
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The Philippines can ensure rice security while reducing poverty, according to a book titled "Securing Rice, Reducing Poverty: Challenges and Policy Directions."
The book, co-published by SEARCA, Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), and Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricultural Research, recommends, among other things, policy reforms in terms of intensified public investment in irrigation, extension, research and development (R&D) in agriculture, particularly in rice.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-14 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 267775
[Title] => Instant rice coffee now commercialized
[Summary] => Ever tried instant rice coffee?
Yes, it’s now being commercialized.
It’s natural – no caffeine, no artificial flavor, no artificial color. It remedies gas pain, ulcer, and liver problems.
Last Christmas, we received a package of gifts, which included a plastic bottle (400 grams) of instant rice coffee.
The label carries the seal of the Nueva Ecija provincial government and it states that the item is a product of the Science City of Muñoz.
[DatePublished] => 2005-01-09 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 267323
[Title] => 8 new rice varieties approved for release
[Summary] => Eight new rice varieties have been approved for commercial planting.
The new varieties were approved for release by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC) on the recommendation of the Rice Varietal Improvement Group (RVIG).
Of the eight varieties, three are hybrid and five are inbred, reported Dr. John de Leon of the DA-Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => Rice coffee, anyone?
[Summary] => Mention rice coffee and, to the country’s senior citizens, it ins-tantaneously opens the floodgates of their memories to the hard times during World War II when they made coffee out of rice.
But in these times when coffee industry has the best products to offer, rice coffee is interestingly staging a comeback.
In fact, in groceries in Nueva Ecija, acknowledged as the country’s rice granary, rice coffee in various flavors can now be bought.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => Rice hull-fueled stove saves money, LPG, forests
[Summary] => The cold or so-called "brrr" months are here.
And expect the expenses of households on fuel – whether liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or firewood – to increase. This is because many people boil their water for a hot bath.
But one need not use expensive LPG to boil water or even cook one’s food.
One can turn to the now popular Maligaya rice hull (MRH) stove developed by the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice).
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => 2 new hybrid rice varieties bred
[Summary] => Two new hybrid rice varieties have been developed.
Named NSIG Rc114h and NSIG Rc116H, NSIG stands for National Seed Industry Council.
The varieties were bred by scientists of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Rice Varietal Improvement Group (RVIG) of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => Hybrid rice gets priority in NFA procurement program
[Summary] => Hybrid rice, particularly the "Mestizo" variety, will be given priority in the palay procurement program of the National Food Authority (NFA).
This is stipulated in a memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed recently between NFA and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
Signatories to the agreement were NFA administrator Anthony R.A. Abad, PhilRice Executive Director Leocadio S. Sebastian, and Luis Lorenzo Jr., presidential adviser on Million Jobs Creation and chairman of the PhilRice Board of Trustees (BOT).
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-18 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => New rice variety suited for Cordillera developed
[Summary] => LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A new rice variety suited to the cool elevated areas in the Cordilleras has been developed.
It is named NSIC Rc104, with the local name Balili after a river in this province. It has been released by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC, formerly Philippine Seed Board or PSB).
The new variety was jointly developed by Filipino and Japanese rice scientists under the "R&D Project on High Productivity and Rice Technology."
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-31 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => R&D groups develop 61 new rice varieties over past decade
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — Sixty-one new improved rice varieties have been bred and approved for commercial release during the past decade.
Many of these varieties approved by the secretariat of the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC, formerly Philippine Seed Board or PSB) are now widely grown across the country.
Sixty of them were bred and released during the 2000-2001 period by the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-03 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => Asian countries adopt RP-bred rice varieties
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Some Asian countries are now planting rice varieties and breeding lines developed by the Philippines. Others are finally testing some of the RP-bred varieties and lines.
Executive Director Leocadio S. Sebastian of the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) reported this development at the meeting of the International Network for the Genetic Evaluation of Rice (INGER) held recently in Bangkok, Thailand.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-09 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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