RiceStrawPH: IRRI teams up with Philippine partners for sustainable rice straw management project
Tuesday, 2018/07/03 | 08:04:23
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IRRI News, Friday, June 29, 2018
Figure: Lab to deal with rice straw management in the Philippines
The Philippines produces 15.2 million tons of rice; leaving 11.3 tons of rice straw spread out in the field. The abundance of rice straw can be used for a number of profitable practices like composting, mushroom production, and as feed for animals.
“It is very exciting to see how we are taking further steps, through strong collaboration with our Philippine partners, to find ways to manage rice by-products, for optimal resource-use efficiency in farms in the most environmentally sustainable manner. This is very crucial for us to achieve a sustainable impact in rice–based ecosystems,” said Jon Hellin, IRRI Platform Leader on SSustainable IImpact. “We must create incentives for farmers to stop burning and to do this under the umbrella of enabling legislative framework,” he said.
See: http://news.irri.org/2018/06/ricestrawph-irri-teams-up-with.html |
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