Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), which is where all the tariff collected from imported rice should go, has bankrolled the distribution of inbred rice seeds across 46 provinces.
Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), which is where all the tariff collected from imported rice should go, has bankrolled the distribution of inbred rice seeds across 46 provinces.
A data from Department of Agricultures (DA) Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) showed that 46 out of the 57 target provinces have already received 341,203 bags of inbred rice seeds under the RCEFs seed program. Each bag contains 20 kilogram of rice seeds.
The 46 provinces, which make up 81 percent of the programs target, include 282 municipalities and cities with high-potential for competitiveness in rice production.
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