A pilot software

A pilot software carried out via rice farmers in Pulilan, Bulacan has effectively verified methods via which the u . S . Can reap rice self-sufficiency, this system’s proponents said.

Under the route of Department of Science and Technology Regional Office 3 (DOST three), and with the participation of the Philippine Sino Center for Agricultural Technologies (PhilSCAT), the Local Government of Pulilan, and the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit three (DA RFU3), the program applied strategies developed by means of DOST three Director Dr. Julius Caesar V. Sicat, who become capable of produce 2 hundred cavans according to hectare in his rice fields at the Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija within the 2015 and 2016 dry seasons.

PhilSCAT furnished technical help, even as DA RFU3 contributed hybrid rice seed. PhilSCAT provided education on seedbed guidance using double mulching approach and use of mechanized transplanters to nearby farmers in December 2016 and January 2017, at the same time as a joint PhilSCAT-DOST 3 group became installation to reveal and suggest the farmers throughout the subsequent growing season. The end of the joint challenge team changed into that higher rice yields are possible with the appropriate seed range and first-rate, proper plant spacing, accurate fertilizer timing and costs, and suitable irrigation software. The Pulilan farmers were hence encouraged to switch from direct/broadcast seeding to mechanized transplanting; growth fertilizer utility from 4 to six luggage of fertilizer to the greater intensive eight to ten luggage of fertilizer per hectare; and use hybrid rice seeds in place of the standard inbred seeds. In addition, the Carageenan Plant Growth Supplement evolved by way of the Philippine Rice Research Institute was carried out at 14, 28 and forty two days after transplanting.

Harvest consequences in April had been promising, the team said. A 1.25-hectare farm owned by using Lito Calderon produced 177 cavans at 70 kilograms every of Mestiso 78 (also known as Long Ping 937) palay, equivalent to 9.9 heaps per hectare. Calderon stated this become about two times last 12 months’s yield of range PSB Rc218.

Likewise, a 0.Seventy five-hectare farm owned by way of Ponciano Mendoza had a yield of 10.27 lots in line with hectare of the popular hybrid range SL8-H, again nearly doubling the previous yr’s output.

The DOST-led crew said that they count on similar effects in next harvests, and cautioned that if the strategies have been carried out at some stage in the country, the up to now elusive aim of rice self-sufficiency could be easily completed.