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(PNA file photo) #PBBMSONA2022 MANILA- The Department of Agriculture (DA) is looking into a "Masagana 150" program that will target to produce 150 cavans of rice harvest per hectare, Undersecretary Kristine Evangelista has said. President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s father and namesake, the late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., introduced Masagana 99 in the 1970s to prevent a nationwide rice shortage. The program was designed to increase rice production by giving farmers high-yielding rice varieties, with the goal of promoting the country's rice self-sufficiency by raising the averagepalaycrop yield from 40 cavans per hectare to 99 cavans per hectare. The Masagana 150 program, Evangelista said, would employ new technology in helping the farmers increase their yield. "It's anchored in increasing the yield based on the tech we can avail of, and the tech we have but the idea is to reach that much as far as cavans is concerned. We're looking at ....

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