Rolando R Andres & The Beauty Of TH-82
MANILA: On Wednesday, 21 September 2016, with my Lumix FZ100 camera, we visited Rolly Andres' hybrid rice farm in the village of Cabaritan in San Manuel, Pangasinan and this is what we saw: tillers full of rich green-yellowing rice panicles that we estimated to yield about 10 tonnes/ha. To be harvested 09 October, or 18 days from then. That visit was a little after mid-day, the wrong time to take photographs. I decided to visit the farm again early this morning, Thursday, 22 September, at just past 0600 hours, because I knew the images would be much better. As you can see. It so happened that it rained the night before, so the air was clean and the leaves had drops of water on them, perfect for close-ups. What you're looking at is only 1 of 300 shots I took. Rolly's source of seeds was the Municipal Agriculture Office of San Manuel, via Danielida Sabado, technician; she gave Rolly 15 kg of TH-82, worth P 4,500. Oh dear! That's P 300/kg. Expensive. Y...