By Rey Anthony Chiu
PIA
Wary of a glitch in Bohol’s rice production this cropping season, an aggie research facility head here urges farmers to report anything unusual about their farms.
This as the government through the Department of Agriculture and the Capitol distributed roughly 22 thousand bags of certified and hybrid rice to maximize on the harvest and stockpile a good buffer for the speculation of another rice crisis in 2009.
The 22,000 bags is just for this cropping season whereas last year, we distributed only 25,000 bags for the whole year, Engr. Eugene Cahiles of the Bohol Agricultural Promotion Center (BAPC) said.
At the onset of the cropping season, rains dumped all over Bohol for weeks and it may prove to be affecting the growth of the seeds or the general condition of the farms.
Engr. Cahiles aired this apprehension as he said the unusually too much water brought about by the cold front to the country may stunt rice growths or bring in other rice or farm maladies and affect farm outputs.
Anything unusual in your farms, we ask you to report it to your respective municipal agricultural officers and farm technicians so the proper authorities can help, Cahiles urged.
Such is to make sure that Bohol could attain its vision of comfortable buffer stocks when the speculated rice supply shortage hits the country.
The BAPC has been urging farmers to switch to the higher yielding certified and hybrid rice varieties to cope up with the need of Bohol to get the most out of its very small patches of land formerly grown with the traditional varieties.
A hybrid and certified rice farm yields 3.5 to 6 tons per hectare while traditional rice yields much less, data from the APC shows.
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