especially his depiction of pastoral or rural Philippines of Filipino women and men in idyllic farms scenes, harvesting rice, or Filipina lavanderas, washing their clothes in pristine rivers.

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grisea races. Before 1998, 98% of rice fields in the study area were sown with monocultures of the hybrid rice varieties Shanyuo22 and Shanyuo63. The desirable glutinous varieties were planted in ...

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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture ... the government’s disaster response and selling of subsidized rice. In a hybrid press conference on Wednesday, NFA Administrator Larry ...

A rice field in Mito, Japan, where farmers are being encouraged to grow more of the staple crop to make up for shortages on store shelves, on Wednesday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Elaine Kurtenbach) ...

Under the sweltering sun in Nueva Ecija, Mario Satulan carefully tends to the rice fields he has farmed for decades. A second ...

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and levelling-off of rice fields are said to be among the reasons behind the growing shortage of rice in the Philippines. In 2021, the Philippines became the first country to approve commercial ...