By Juju Manubag-Empuerto
CEBU CITY, Feb. 5 (PIA) -- The
agriculture department is appealing to the public to stop wasting rice, a major
staple food for most Filipinos.
Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas Regional Field Unit-7 (DA RFU 7) Regional Executive Director Angel C. Enriquez made the appeal during the recent launching of the National Year of Rice (NYR) in Bohol Province at the Cultural Center in Tagbilaran City.
Around 400 farmers from the different towns in Bohol along with agriculture students from different parts of the country attended the launching.
"We at DA are very confident that we will achieve the rice self-sufficiency if we have the right management of consumption," Enriquez said.
Enriquez said the greater volume of rice produce in the region is contributed by Bohol Province.
The DA official said that in order to help attain rice and other staples sufficiency, one must be responsible consumer.
The rice consumers, she said, should take care to prepare and serve only enough food on the plate.
Enriquez also advised that excess food should not be put to waste but must be recycled.
She is optimistic that the country will attain food staples sufficiency during the year to support the growing population.
She also added that the government has put up rice processing facilities and technical inputs to farmers that will help them increase their production.
In a related development, the DA RFU 7 led by Enriquez and Technical Directors Tomasita Cadungog and Joel Elumba unveiled the NYR logo, simultaneous with other regions of the country who also had their unveiling of the logo.
Picking the blue, red and yellow colors of the Philippine flag, the logo is an artist’s representation of the rice plant incorporating the producers, consumers, and policy makers who are involved in rice productivity and efforts to reduce rice wastage.
President Simeon Benigno Aquino III declared 2013 as the National Year of Rice under Proclamation No. 494.
The NYR’s advocacy theme this year is "Sapat na Bigas Kaya ng Pinas". (rmn/JSME/PIA-7 Cebu/DA-RFU-7)
Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas Regional Field Unit-7 (DA RFU 7) Regional Executive Director Angel C. Enriquez made the appeal during the recent launching of the National Year of Rice (NYR) in Bohol Province at the Cultural Center in Tagbilaran City.
Around 400 farmers from the different towns in Bohol along with agriculture students from different parts of the country attended the launching.
"We at DA are very confident that we will achieve the rice self-sufficiency if we have the right management of consumption," Enriquez said.
Enriquez said the greater volume of rice produce in the region is contributed by Bohol Province.
The DA official said that in order to help attain rice and other staples sufficiency, one must be responsible consumer.
The rice consumers, she said, should take care to prepare and serve only enough food on the plate.
Enriquez also advised that excess food should not be put to waste but must be recycled.
She is optimistic that the country will attain food staples sufficiency during the year to support the growing population.
She also added that the government has put up rice processing facilities and technical inputs to farmers that will help them increase their production.
In a related development, the DA RFU 7 led by Enriquez and Technical Directors Tomasita Cadungog and Joel Elumba unveiled the NYR logo, simultaneous with other regions of the country who also had their unveiling of the logo.
Picking the blue, red and yellow colors of the Philippine flag, the logo is an artist’s representation of the rice plant incorporating the producers, consumers, and policy makers who are involved in rice productivity and efforts to reduce rice wastage.
President Simeon Benigno Aquino III declared 2013 as the National Year of Rice under Proclamation No. 494.
The NYR’s advocacy theme this year is "Sapat na Bigas Kaya ng Pinas". (rmn/JSME/PIA-7 Cebu/DA-RFU-7)