Tata Narcing plants hybrid rice for 1st time, harvests 296 cavans per hectare.(Provincial News)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: December 5, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: SANNY GALVEZ

BANGUED, Abra -- This rice farmer from this capital town of Abra has made a record for himself - he harvested 296 cavans per hectare from his four-hectare rice farm.

Sixty-five-year-old Narciso "Tata Narcing" Bernardez was all smiles when asked how he feels harvesting, for the first time in his life as a farmer, 296 cavans per hectare (14.80 metric tons) from his hybrid rice farm in Barangay Lubong, Bangued.

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