180,000 hectares targeted for rice this year
LINGAYEN–More than 180,000 hectares of farmland in Pangasinan will be planted with rice in this year’s planting season which already started this month.
According to Dalisay Moya, officer-in-charge at the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, at least 40 percent of the areas set to be planted, are rainfed.
Moya said Pangasinan is the largest rice producing province in Region 1 and the third largest all over the country trailing Nueva Ecija and Isabela in that order.
She said the average rice harvest in the province to date is more than four tons per hectare or from 80 to 100 cavans per hectare.
She said floods notwithstanding, the province will still maintain its position as the number one food basket in Region 1, not only in rice and corn but also vegetables fish and livestock. (Leonardo Micua)
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