BUTUAN CITY, April 3 — Rice farmers in Barangay Lemon, this city begin to reap the benefits of planting hybrid rice.
BUTUAN CITY, April 3 — Rice farmers in Barangay Lemon, this city begin to reap the benefits of planting hybrid rice.
Last year, 40 rice farmers in the city accepted the challenge to be farmer-cooperators of the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Caraga’s Hybrid Rice Model Farm Project.
The 76-hectare model farm is a collaborative project with the city government of Butuan and nine private seed companies. It stages the nine hybrid rice seeds such as M20-public hybrid, M51-Pioneer 79, M50-TH82, M78-Longping 937, M81-SL-19H, M46-Bigante Plus, Boiseeds 453, Syngenta NK5017, Ramgo-Kimbee 58.
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