Tagbilaran City – The Province of Bohol will soon have a 15-hectare mechanized hybrid rice model farm inside the Ubay Stock Farm located in Ubay town with the memorandum of agreement (NOA) signed on October 28 between the Department of Agriculture (DA-7) and the National Irrigation Administration (NIA-7) to formalize the collaborative effort between them to develop a model farm for other rice farmers in the region to learn.
DA-7 executive director Atty. Salvador Diputado said that the project costs P11.3 million that consists of farm inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, machineries, facility and equipment that cost around P8 million and another P3.5 million funds for civil works like land leveling which will be downloaded to the NIA.
“This is in compliance to Secretary William Dar’s directive to link up with the NIA in food production activities,” Diputado added.
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