TAGBILARAN CITY — A rice farmer from Paraiso, Mabini town in Bohol, Estarlita Vallecera got for the first time the highest yield from its hybrid rice farm when she harvested an average of eight metric tons per hectare during his actual harvest last October 16 and the Department of Agriculture (DA) here is expecting more Bohol rice farmers to have the same harvests.
This prompted Mabini mayor Juanito Jayoma to inform the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Central Visayas to personally see the actual harvest that was considered as a great harvest since it is the first time a farmer in the municipality got this highest yield.
DA-7 regional director Atty. Salvador Diputado said that the harvest is not from the crop cup, but from the actual harvest already. It means that generally the farmers who received the SL-20 and other hybrid seeds that the DA distributed in Bohol for the wet season in July this year will have an average of 8 metric tons per hectare.
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