The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA), opened the fifth Rice: Research To Production (RR2P) capacity development course for research and extension staff of the DA and its attached agencies, local government units, and state universities and colleges on 7 November 2022.
IRRI, Philippine Agriculture Department open 5th rice research-to-production course for government researchers and extension agents
The course will provide the 40 participants with basic and hands-on skills in rice production and post-production; knowledge in the country’s Philippine rice industry from production to market; and research and development issues and opportunities in the Philippine context. The RR2P course uses online and face-to-face training sessions. The online component will be held until 20 January 2023 with 16 modules covering the following topics:
1. Farm planning and budgeting
2. Rice plant morphology and growth stages
3. Rice varieties and ecosystems
4. Land preparation and leveling
5. Rice crop establishment
6. Water management in rice-based systems
7. Nutrient management
8. Pest management
9. Harvest and post-harvest management
10. Rice breeding
11. Diversified farming in rice-based systems
12. On-farm participatory adaptive research
13. Digital tools for rice production
14. Gender and rice research for development
15. Rice value chain under Philippine context
16. Research proposal development for DA funding.
RRP2 is being conducted under the IRRI-DA collaborative project SERVE 2. SERVE2 is a capacity development project that is focused on strengthening the skills of the Philippines’ national agricultural research and extension partners in research, development and extension to improve the productivity, competitiveness, and resilience of rice-based farming communities. Both senior and junior staff from DA and IRRI have benefited from several capacity-building activities under the project.
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IRRI Education opens three courses on rice research, breeding, and sustainable cultivation
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Education opened on rice research and production, rice breeding, and sustainable rice cultivation.
The Rice Research to Production (RR2P) face-to-face course kicked off on 05 September at the IRRI headquarters with 69 research and extension staff of the Department of Agriculture (DA), DA attached agencies, local government units, and state universities and colleges participating in the 5-day training. The program is part of the fourth rollout of the RR2P course, which started on 27 June, where the participants will get to apply what they have learned from the online component of the course under the guidance of IRRI’s resource experts. This RR2P program is under the DA-IRRI project, Strengthening the capability of the national research for development and extension partners for research, development, and extension of information and technologies to improve productivity and resilience of rice-based farming communities in the Philippines.
The two-week, face-to-face, and hands-on rice breeding course held its opening program on 05 September also at IRRI headquarters. IRRI Education organized the course in collaboration with Dr. Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, the country breeding lead at IRRI Bangladesh, to share the OneRice breeding strategy with rice scientists from Bangladesh. The course imparts knowledge and skills on the stages and components of a molecular breeding program and the tools and techniques required for the program. As part of the course, the participants visited the institute’s rice breeding facilities, seed processing, and seed management facilities. By the end of the course, participants are expected to design and execute their own product-oriented rice breeding programs.
Additionally, IRRI Education is delivering the online course Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard and Performance Indicators. The opening program was held on 05 September attended by Dr. Nguyen Thi My Phung, IRRI consultant; Dr. Tran Nguyen Ha Trang, agricultural project and international cooperation specialist at Loc Troi Agricultural Research Institute, and IRRI Education Head Gopesh Tewari. Twenty-five participants from Loc Troi Group, are learning the SRP Standard for sustainable rice cultivation, the world’s first voluntary sustainability standard for the crop.
Successful participants from this training will be awarded the SRP Authorized Trainer certification that allows them to conduct future SRP training for the same topic to different stakeholders including farmers.
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