Rice planting in the Philippines

From seed preparation until rice mill. Have a look how rice is produced in the provinces of the Philippines. I am a German who is living in Tigaon, Camarines Sur, the hometown of my Filipina wife. We are engaged in agriculture and try to find out new ways to boost production and income for our workers and neighbours.

Have also a look to our other videos about vegetable and calamansi farming in Bicol.

Mabuhay and regards from

Jochen Binikowski

have a look to our project - homepage

http://www.buddel.de/kft/en/index.htm

Update: By September 2010 we are planning a new video because in the meantime there have been many new features at the farm.

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[jochen53]

The yield is ranging from 3 - 6 tons/hectar raw rice (palay), depending on the weather conditions. This is approx. 1.2 to 2.4 tons/acre.

After milling 1 ton of palay is about 600 KG of white, polished rice.

Actually there are new hybrid seeds which can yield up to 13 tons/hectar. We tried it already but since we made mistakes in fertilizing the yield was very low. We will try it again. Learning by doing...

[DuskandDawn06]

I am still in favor of the traditional ways of planting rice.

And i like best the organic fertilizer..... free from harm:-)

Rice stalks can be recycled to use for growing mushrooms.

Ashes from rice residue can be used as cleanser.....

[Agrisonic]

Excellent clip! Keep up the good work!

[5tonyvvvv]

@kWiImL3203 Calm down! America helps us with our food shortages and when storms and rodents ruin crops america feeds us. So we are thankful for america. We need population control, people here need to stop having children.

[RagingBubuli]

Is it possible to plant a Rice via hydroponics?

[2007okay]

ncieinec

[redwinetragedies1969]

jochen, thanks for uploading this video =)

[jangojyc]

see from thailand and laos very good step for planting rice

[xcalibur1989]

@kWiImL3203 ummm no, you fail on so many levels that it doesn't even warrant a response to your assumptions. Also, why bother commenting on comment one year ago?

[kWiImL3203]

@xcalibur1989 idiot!The Philippines is composed of 7,107 islands so we use "The" in order to recognize all of them joined together in one country.You don't say United States of America,you say "The" USA.

[SAMLAD2k6]

I still don't really get it, so rice grows as like a hard type of grass, then it gets crushed or ground until the hard grass splits off into the little rice bits that we buy in the shops???

[bluemoondiadochi]

oh yeah, just remembered; for spraying the field a solution of garlic could work, it's used in gardening.

also, isn't burning rice husks a big waste? don't they contain good nutrients as feed for cattle?

or they could be pressed into bricketts and sold for fire.

[bluemoondiadochi]

danke!

a nice video, and a good idea to use nitrofixing bacteria. have you heard of a method of rice growing there you also put in a certain fish and ducks to eat pests!

i am interested in plowing with buffaloes and plow design. do you have any info how they are trained and how the plow is made?