Farmers push high rice yield in M’danao

BUTUAN City – At least 180 farmers and partners from three regions have joined hands here to push for the promotion of high-yielding rice varieties and use cost-cutting technologies for production. and cost-reducing rice production technologies,” the ATI-13 said. During the two-day activity, the participants formulated plans to promoting new rice production technologies and strategies in their respective areas. Undersecretary Leocado Sebastian of the DA’s Rice Industry Development and DA-13 Regional Director Ricardo Oñate Jr. are among those who joined the activity. Sebastian underscored the importance of the Masagana Rice Program under the present administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and its implementation strategies. “These strategies, including the climate change

In a statement Friday, the Agricultural Training Institute in the Caraga Region (ATI-13) said the farmers, cooperative leaders, representatives from local government units, researchers, agriculturists, and personnel from the attached bureaus of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Mindanao gathered for a two-day Rice Technology Transfer Workshop here starting Thursday. It said the participants came from the regions of Soccsksargen, Caraga, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao who are directly engaged in rice production. “The focus of the workshop is to strengthen the promotion of high-yielding

TRIBAL DANCE. A Manobo Bae (female tribal leader) holding a dressed native chicken tied to a bamboo pole decorated with coconut fronds dances around an altar to offer the bountiful resources of the 1,658-hectare Mt. Magdiwata watershed, the source of potable water and storm cover of residents of San Francisco town in Agusan del Sur. MindaNews photo by

CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN