Embracing Hybrid Rice: Impacts and Future Directions

Leocadio S. Sebastian, Flordeliza H. Bordey and Leonardo A. Gonzales

No 2006-1, Agriculture and Development Discussion Paper Series from Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)

Abstract: Rice continues to be the bread and butter of Philippine agriculture. It is the only single commodity, which contributes 21 percent of agriculture’s gross value added (NSCB [National Statistical Coordination Board] 2003). Rice is the staple food of 86 percent of 84 million Filipinos (Castillo 2006). The rice industry also employs more than two million farmers, thousands of traders and millers, and millions of landless agriculture workers. So vital in the lives of the Filipinos, rice becomes a political commodity and is continuously the center of national agriculture programs.Â

Keywords: commercialization program; hybrid rice; impact assessment; farm income; farm practices; rice economy; social impacts; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2006
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