Hybrid Rice Companies, Why Don’t They Sell Their Seeds By Packaging With Farmer Choices Between Chemical And Organic Fertilizers? For Much Better Business – And Much Better Climates!

Hybrid Rice (HR) is not my hot cup of coffee, but it struck me this morning, Wednesday, 27 April 2022, that HR companies could help themselves sell more of their packages of wonder seeds – and at the same time be very agriculture-friendly – 2 birds with 1 stone.

As a volunteer promoter of PH Agriculture, I am thinking of proclaiming the wonders of HR along with the wonders of regenerative organic agriculture – your hybrid rice helping the farmers bring about 2 victories: (1) rise over their own poverty and (2) simultaneously rise above climate change!

It will be historic – private interest in agriculture bringing about public interest in climate change.

I am speaking as the forward-looking originator and promoter of Communication for Village Development in the 21^st Century (CoViD21). I am a UP Los Baños graduate, BSA major in Ag Edu – an agriculturist and a teacher. My grade is nothing to sneeze at despite several 5’s: 2.36 Weighted Average. And I have been blogging in Agriculture in the last 22 years with something like 9 million words written in proper essay form.

I hereby declare that hybrid rice can be more successfully propagated among the 10 million Filipino rice farmers if it is associated with:

(1)    Defeating poverty of rice farmers, and

(2)    Defeating climate change!

How? Practicing organic farming.

Yes, Sirs, if you did not know, organic farming is regenerative farming, bringing back the:

(1) natural richness of the soil;
(2) crop of its natural goodness – from natural elements in the organic matter come the healthy nutrients in the food we eat;
(3) health of our bodies as we consume the healthy foods;
(4) Earth’s health as it contributes zero to greenhouse gases that produce climate change.

What more could we ask?!

I have a running respect for hybrid rice companies. After all, they came 20 March 2019, when PH’s 8^th National Rice Technology Forum (NRTF) happened in my hometown Asingan, Pangasinan – the above is my 06:11 AM photograph of the “Welcome to Asingan, Pangasinan” sign at the border of Asingan and Urdaneta City. The companies that participated in the NRTF included Advanta, Bayer, BioRice, Corteva, and Longpin.

Luisa Maria Jacinta C Jocson is positive about HR; she says, “Hybrid Rice Touted As Higher Yielding Despite Expense” (07 Feb 2022, BusinessWorld, businessworld.com). Yet, she says, as of 15 Jan, hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice lands remained unplanted to hybrid rice, 614,619 ha against a total of 152,000,000 ha, or only 40%.

I declare: Hybrid rice companies could sell much, much more if they packaged agricultural scientific choices along with agribusiness tips – in popular language – with their wonder seeds.

I mean, they need a copywriter who is also conversant with the technology. As a UP Los Baños graduate who has been blogging in the last 22 years about agriculture:

I am volunteering to mastermind 1 hybrid rice-organic agriculture brochure for free! First come, first served. PM me for email.@517