THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), under the Department of Agriculture (DA) has presented the National Rice, Industry Roadmap (NRIR) 2030, which was dissected during the Annual Rice Policy Forum recently convened by the Asia Rice Foundation (ARF) in partnership with the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca).|

The policy forum on October 30 critiqued the NRIR prepared by PhilRice through a series of multi-stakeholder consultations. Searca gave to forum participants copies of its publication titled “The Rice Economy and the Role of Policy in Southeast Asia” authored by Roehlano Briones of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, who also attended the event.