Mayor Albert D. Chua attended the inauguration of PhilRice’s new solar-powered seed warehouse on March 19. The facility includes cold storage and acclimatization rooms and is located at DA-PhilRice Batac, one of the DA-PhilRice stations in Luzon benefiting from this project.
This project is funded by South Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (MAFRA). It aims to strengthen food security by improving storage, reducing crop losses, and making agricultural information more accessible to farmers.
The event was attended by Dr. Byung Ki Lee, Project Manager and President of the Philippine Supply Chain Project and Global Agriculture Policy Institute, and Mr. Herman Z. Ongkiko, CEO and President of Orient Integrated Development Consultants, Inc. Representatives from the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office I, Bureau of Plant Industry – National Seed Quality Control Services, National Tobacco Administration, Mariano Marcos State University, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte, and the DA-PhilRice Central Experiment Station also joined the ceremony.
