Good morning everyone! Rice grains plays a very important part of life of the people. I may say most depend on rice. I want to share with you what I have read in one newpaper here.
Over 6.7 million metric tons of palay or unhusked rice have been harvested from half of the 2.5 million hectares of lands planted to rice for this wet or main cropping season for the staple.
Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) Rice Program National Coordinator Dr. Frisco Malabanan said the initial yield report indicates that the Department of Agriculture (DA) could still attain a positive growth in palay production this year.
“Such preliminary yields indicate that the DA can still attain a positive growth palay production this year despite the significant drop in fertilizer use by farmers arising from the 100-percent jump this year in the cost of petrochemical fertilizers,” Malabanan said.In a report to Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, Malabanan said the full-year production forecast of 16.6 million metric tons was based on the combined yields of 10.587 million metric tons in the first three quarters of 2008, which represents a growth rate of 7.22 percent compared to the aggregate volume of 9.874 million metric tons during the same period last year.
The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics showed palay production in the third quarter reached 3.467 million metric tons, a 10.17-percent growth compared to the 2007 yield of 3.146 million metric tons for the same period.
In a statement, the Agriculture department said the palay yields were not as high as originally projected for the period because of the 30-percent drop in the application of costly inorganic fertilizers during the wet or main crop, leading to a decline in the per-hectare yields of farmers.However, despite the decline in fertilizer usage, the Agriculture department managed to offset the potential production losses by increasing by 7 percent the total area planted to palay during the wet cropping season.
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