Thursday 7 May 2020

Under the new agreement, SL Agritech will plant its SL-8H hybrid this current planting season in Myanmar on
14,000 hectares. The settlement will also offer for a planting of the two Dona Maria sorts—Jasponica (SL-7H) and Miponica (SL-9H)—in an area to be decided later.

SL Agritech stated that the Dona Maria rice might be offered in Myanmar below the identical emblem call.

SL Agritech president Henry Lim Bon Liong turned into a part of the Philippines’ delegation to Myanmar in conjunction with other
non-public zone representatives.

At a harvest pageant in Guimba, Nueva Ecija previous to the ride to Myanmar, Lim said the Duterte administration has strongly supported hybrid rice enlargement in the Philippines, which extends to supplying assistance to other growing countries to achieve improved rice production thru hybrid rice.

Myanmar has set a lofty aim of regaining its location as the sector’s biggest rice exporter—which it turned into inside the years previous to World War II. The u . S . Has about 17 million hectares of arable land, a place larger than the rice cultivating areas of Thailand and Vietnam, which can be planted with rice, according to facts from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Expansion of hybrid rice planting in Myanmar will probably be financially supported by Philippine microfinance leader CARD below CARDMyanmar Company Ltd. CARD started out operating in Myanmar in mild of change and agriculture trends there, SL Agritech said..

1M hectares in PH

Earlier in March, Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol stated that the DA is targeting the planting of a further a million hectares of hybrid rice in the Philippines within the next 3 years.

“The Rice TWG (technical running group) goals a further region of 1,000,000 hectares to be planted to hybrid rice seeds in the subsequent 3 years, which theoretically are anticipated to yield a further four million metric lots of paddy rice per yr,” stated Piñol in a March 13 Facebook post.

“With a milling restoration of sixty five percent, the added manufacturing should yield 2.6-million metric heaps of rice that's more than sufficient to cover the national shortage of one.8-million metric tons each year,” stated Piñol.

Lim stated Piñol and Duterte are anticipated to go to hybrid rice fields this April 5 whilst the most a success hybrid rice farmers’ cooperative—Nagkakaisang Magsasaka Agricultural Primary Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Inc. (NMAP-MPC) holds its personal harvest festival in Tabacao in Nueva Ecija.

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