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For this wet planting season, rice farmers in the provinces of Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, and Zambales will receive around 246,000 bags of certified inbred seeds from the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice).

About 300 farmers in the province initially got inbred rice seeds weighing 20 kilos each during the start seed distribution event conducted at the Diwa ng Tarlac Convention Center in Tarlac City on Thursday.

Rice growers in Tarlac will receive more than 78,000 bags of certified inbred rice seeds.

The NSIC Rc 160 and NSIC Rc 534 are two seed variants that will be distributed.

Meanwhile, Nueva Ecija will receive more than 130,000 sacks of inbred rice seeds.

Reynaldo Dumawan praised the government for the three bags of RCEF-certified seeds he received for his 1.2-hectare field as the head of the Barangayan Siete Irrigators Association in the Science City of Muoz, Nueva Ecija.

“Unang beses pa lamang ako nakatanggap ng binhi mula sa RCEF at sabik na ako masubukan ang natanggap na libreng binhi mula sa gobyerno (This is my first time receiving rice seeds from RCEF and I am excited to try the free rice seeds I received from the government),” Dumawan added.

A total of 16,000 rice farmers in Zambales will get more than 38,000 bags of certified inbred rice seeds.

NSIC Rc 222, Rc 480, Rc 160, Rc 218SR, Rc 436, and Rc 534 are some of the seed varieties that will be distributed, according to Magiting Garcia, RCEF provincial coordinator in Zambales.

During the dry crop season of 2023, a total of 233,354 bags of certified inbred seeds were delivered to rice farmers in Central Luzon, benefiting 74,316 rice farmers in the area.

The certified inbred rice seed distribution, which is jointly supported by the RCEF Seed Program and the DA’s National Rice Program (NRP), is meant to complement and reinforce the hybrid rice production strategy of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. under his food security policy.

The adoption of certified inbred seeds in the program’s covered provinces grew from more than 40% to 84 percent, according to the results of the program’s seasonal monitoring and assessment, which led to higher average yields in 2020.

According to PhilRice’s monitoring, yields increased progressively from 3.63 metric tons per hectare (MT/ha) in the dry season of 2019 to 4.2 MT/ha in the dry season of 2022.

According to PhilRice, the yield for the wet season climbed from 3.69 MT/ha in the wet season of 2019 to 4.03 MT/ha in the wet season of 2021.

In order to increase the competitiveness of Filipino rice farmers, the RCEF Seed Program, a part of Republic Act 11203, or the Rice Tariffication Law, provides PHP3 billion in funding annually for the development, propagation, and promotion of high-quality inbred rice seeds.

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