Sentences with phrase «rice crop manager»
The Department of Agriculture and IRRI launched the Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a free mobile phone service that allows Filipino farmers and extension workers easy access to information to help reduce fertilizer waste and ensure rice crops have enough nutrients to reach their yield potential.This program is available in five local languages — Bicolano, Ilokano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Tagalog.
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Rice Crop Manager was developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a product of a research collaboration with the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).
«Using Rice Crop Manager, extension workers, who bring technical knowhow and technologies to farmers through the Food Staples Sufficiency Program, will be empowered to provide farmers intelligent recommendations based on technical data on rice crop management,» explained Dr. Regalado.
«The use of the Rice Crop Manager will hopefully bring an increase in yield or productivity, and also raise the income of farmers by about Php 4,000 per crop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).
CSAAS aims at expanding the capabilities of the Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a web - based application available on smartphones developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), currently upscaled in the Philippines.
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But Adrian Dubock, who was not directly involved in the work but who is a Switzerland - based manager for the Golden Rice Project, which promotes the development of the engineered crop, believes most of the charges to be baseless.
The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.