date:Apr 16, 2013
-5 Program (SHR-10-5), the government's goal of making the Filipino farmers rich is achievable.
We want to have a yield of 10 tons at a cost of 5 pesos ($0.125). That's the dream, Alcala said. He said that the Philippines has a long ongoing cooperation with China through the Philippine-Sino Center for Agricultural Technology (PhilSCAT), through which the Philippines was able adopt China's hybrid rice technology.
China's average rice yield is more than quadruple that of the Philippines because