Two farmers on the benefits of growing organic heirloom rice

Two farmers on the benefits of growing organic heirloom rice

AVANT GARDENEREarlier this year, Dr. Julian Gonsalves, Senior Asia Program Advisor at the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), invited me to visit Guinayangan, Quezon, one of their partner municipalities. I was given a tour of the different programs IIRR conducts in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the local government (LGU).One of these is the Agroecology-based Rice Farming Project (ABRF), which began …