Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr and concurrent head of the Department of Agriculture announced the government’s target of attaining 97% rice sufficiency by 2028.
The government aims to meet the target through a new roadmap to boost the country’s rice production.
The road map includes consolidating small farmlands to make farm mechanization more efficient, introducing digitalization and new technology, and attracting young people to engage in farming,
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Piloting the Vietnamese “Small Farmers, Large Field” scheme in Eastern India
In the past few years, Small Farmers, Large Field (SFLF) schemes have received significant attention in Vietnam to solve smallholders’ problems of mechanization and lack of bargaining power in both input and output markets.
Under the scheme, the participating farmers organize themselves into groups and synchronize their operations by adopting a single rice variety to plant, establishing a group nursery, and transplanting and harvesting around the same time, thus essentially converting their small landholdings into a large field. The SFLF schemes in Vietnam range from formal arrangements, in which farmers set up a company structure and become shareholders, to informal synchronization of activities.
Rice Crop Manager spurs women and the youth to embrace digital technologies in Odisha
The Rice Crop Manager (RCM) has proven to be an effective farmer-friendly digital tool to increase productivity and incomes of rice farmers through balanced fertilizer management. The two case studies presented here highlight how women and young people have used RCM on their farms and successfully reduced their input costs, increased yields, and net benefits.
A physician-turned-farmer with a mission to modernize rice farming
A Filipino medical doctor, who is also a farmer, not only adopted the laser land leveling technology but piloted a service provision model for it—a first of its kind in the rice granary region of the Philippines. His story outlines the next steps that optimize partnership and active engagement of key players to ensure sustainable uptake of mechanization initiatives in the country.
