SoilPredominant on damp, fertile, heavy-textured soils in areas which are seasonally rather than permanently flooded. It is often cultivated on marginal lands where rice and other crops will not grow well Plant Size1–1.2 m RootFibrous root CulmsGlabrous, cylindrical, erect and decumbent. They a...
said yesterday that the country has an adequate supply of rice that can last 120 days despite the heavy losses initially placed at P350 million caused by typhoon ''Feria'' to agriculture and fishery sectors in Ilocos, Cagayan, Cordillera, Central Luzon, and parts of the Southern Tagalog region...
fewer farmers in Rizal and Iloilo were producing insecticide-free rice crops at the time of the survey (13.7% and 9.3%, respectively; χ2 = 63.449, p < 0.001) or during the previous six years (3.2% and 7.1%, respectively; χ2 = 29.905, p < 0.001) compared to the farmers in the ...