IT is very hard to ignore the potential of hybrid rice in making the Philippines more than 100-percent self-sufficient for the grain.

I can say this as I have read many times of Chinese "super hybrid rice" easily attaining yields in excess of 10 metric tons (MT) per hectare (ha) of palay (unmilled rice), which is way above the 4- to 4.5-MT/ha average yield in the Philippines.

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