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Friday, March 29, 2024

ARMM exec to residents: Consume brown, black rice

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COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao—Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Secretary for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Laisa Alamia has urged the region’s residents to patronize locally produced organic brown and black rice.

Alamia, concurrent ARMM executive secretary, said colored rice is  “more nutritious than its regular and commercial counterpart.”

She also said that aside from being organic, brown and black rice are 100-percent halal.

Alamia said that Maguindanao’s Mamasapano town is the region’s leading producer of brown staple food even as other areas in the province and the region “are now converting commercial rice fields into organic rice farms.”

Since November is “Rice Awareness Month”, the region’s provincial and municipal agriculture officers and technicians have been promoting organic rice farming which is “cheaper and better to consumers’ health.”

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Alamia said her agency has steadily been    advancing the “Riceponsible” campaign throughout Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and Maguindanao. Over P20 million worth of machinery and agriculture equipment have been distributed under the Agri-Pinoy Program and Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan.

Guide books, in five dialects, on these equipment have been shared to farmers, according to Kadiguia Abdullah, chairman of the Regional Agricultural and Fisheries Information Division.

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