I am convinced that hybrid rice can help my country tremendously in economic terms; now, I want to know how good are those varieties where. So I want to manage myself a field comparison of costs & returns. I want a techno-demo.
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(hybrid rice image[1], Sultan Kudarat, Agriculture.com.ph)
Which is the #1 Hybrid Rice in the Philippines?
It’s not the total yield – it’s the net income!
Mordor Intelligence puts these 4 as major players in hybrid rice in the Philippines[2]: Bayer, Advanta, Pioneer, SL Agritech; now I want to challenge these companies:
To generate data, your hybrid rice grown with my conservation farming. Let’s see how technically & economically & environmentally & socially sustainable is it when grown with least cost.
For techno-demo, your place, not mine. Your company will spend for 1 hectare to plant and manage your hybrid from seed to seed: soil preparation, seed sowing, transplanting, care & maintenance, harvesting, drying, storage, up to marketing.
Who is Frank A Hilario who dares this techno-demo? I am the son of a farmer, an UPCA graduate, BSA major in Ag Edu, UP '65, graduating with a 2.36 weighted average grade. I passed the very first Teacher’s Exam in 1964 with a grade of 80.6%. And I am historically the one and only Outstanding Alumnus for Creative Writing of all University of the Philippines System, awarded in 2011. I am the world’s most creative blogger – visit my blog
BraveNewWorld@PH, https://bravenewworldph.blogspot.com.
If you don’t know my kind of farming, for introduction, read “Where Can We Filipinos Learn The Better Science Of Farming? From Kansas[3]!” (05 January 2020, BraveNewWorld@PH). To compare your rices, for the techno-demo, I will be the Farm Manager in all 4 hectares cultivated in exactly the same cost-saving ways. Thus:
Step 1. Trash Mulching
No plowing. Instead, big tractor or hand tractor rotavator blades will be used for the first cultivation. The opposite-cutting blades should slice soil and weeds simultaneously and mix them together in one continuous motion; this is repeated throughout all parcels of the 1-ha field. The mulch will keep the soil moist and slowly and surely make it fertile.
Step 2. Direct Seeding
2 weeks after trash mulching, a direct seeder will be used to plant the seeds all over the field. (A separate small plot will be hand-sown with seeds to supply seedlings to missing hills later.)
Step 3. Care of Ricefield
The field will be irrigated if and when necessary.
Step 4. Fertilizing
As needed.
Step 5. Pest Control
As necessary.
Step 6. Harvesting
By combine harvester.
Step 7. Drying
By solar bubble dryer (check with IRRI website).
Step 8. Storage
Where convenient and safe.
Step 9. Marketing
Pre-arranged with consumers, with signed contracts.
Step 10. Review
How can cultivation be improved in any of the steps?
Techno-demo now! How good is your hybrid rice where? Our farmers have to find out, have to be unmistakably shown.@517
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