TABUK CITY, Kalinga: The city and some rice and corn-producing areas in the province are sustaining the rice self-sufficiency of the Cordillera Region, which has made the region one of the rice self-sufficient regions in the country.

Dr. Cameron Odsey, regional executive director of the Cordillera office of the Department of Agriculture (DA-CAR), disclosed that the available land area in the city devoted to rice production complimented by the rice and corn produced by nearby areas in the province such as Pinukpuk and Rizal town is already sufficient to provide the rice requirement of the region amid the shortage of rice production in other regions of the country.