More than twice the national average of 4 MT/ha

A new farming technique called “direct seeding” has raised the wet season yield of hybrid rice crops in Isabela, with a dozen farmers reaping harvests of about 9 metric tons per hectare (MT/ha), according to the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).

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