China will be providing 27.52 million renminbi or about P226.93 million for a project that will modernize the Philippines’ hybrid rice center and help boost the country’s palay production, the Finance department announced on Friday.

An exchange of letters for the grant was signed last Tuesday in China by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd and Chinese Commerce Minister Zhong Shan, the department said in a statement.

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