BigHAni – With Hybrid Vigor, Hybrid Rice Can Light Up The Whole Philippines!

Bighani – This Tagalog word means Charm. Synonyms:Seduction, Attraction, Beauty. My derivation, BigHAni, is acronym: Big Harvests Always Advancing to Appropriate Nets Indisputable. Meaning: High harvests, highly assured incomes.

BigHAni: Again, calling the attention of Secretary of Agriculture William Dar as I truly am thinking of a rice self-sufficient Philippines within 2021. On Christmas Eve, I proposed, “With 2020 Out & Agriculture Secretary William Dar In, We Can Go After Self-Sufficiency In Rice In 2021[1]! “ (24 December 2020, Brave New World PH).

Before BigHAni, I did notknow that we Filipinos have a “public” hybrid rice variety – the Mestiso – in contradistinction to the many “private” or commercial hybrid rices. Mestiso was bred by the very public PhilRice?

Actually, BigHAni is my personal proposal for a national program to attract more farmers to plant more hybrid rice varieties, for big harvests, for big gains.

As a national program, BigHAni will distribute hybrid rice seeds to as many as 100,000 farmers all over the Philippines – free. The recipient farmers will be selected based on previous actual personal experience and/or current knowledge on better rice farming.

In any case, BigHAni technicians will supervise the planting, cultivation, care, management of the hybrid rice crop to ensure that proper protocols are observed, from planting to marketing.

Including marketing, yes. In fact, right at the beginning of the planting, contracts signed by would-be buyers will be required, to guarantee fair and reasonable rice prices, so that the farmers will not fall victims to middlemen who only think of their own good!

BigHAni – From counting seeds to counting sacks of palay to counting cash after marketing and paying off loans, hopefully this is the beginning of a bright future for rice farmers, finally emancipating themselves from the shackles of poverty that have immobilized them since the first rice was planted and the first market opened.

If the DA funds it, if the private hybrid rice companies join BigHAni, this program will hit 5 birds with 1 stone:

(1)   Hybrid rice seeds made accessible.
Farmers can choose among 9 commercial hybrid rice varieties available: Advanta, Bayer, Bioseed, East West, Long Ping, Metahelix, Pioneer, SL Agritech and Syngenta. Either the DA will loan out to the farmers or the hybrid companies do it themselves for their rices, on easy terms.

(2)   Production protocols followed.
BigHAni is supervised production of rice, with technicians assigned to assist farmers in carrying out the soil cultivation, seedling care and all the other crop management practices necessary for highly successful hybrid rice production.

(3)   Market captured.
Right at the start, contracts will be signed by institutional or corporate consumers for the coming harvest. No middlemen will be involved or necessary.

(4)   Net profit guaranteed.
With protocols carried out properly, the net gain is assured.

(5)   DA target of rice sufficiency attained.
Within 2 croppings, the rice supply of the country should be enough to call off any importation.

Filipino farmers, this is yours. BigHAni: Bigas Na Hayop Ang Net Income para sa Indibidwal na Magsasaka. Sana!@517


[1]https://bravenewworldph.blogspot.com/2020/12/with-2020-out-agriculture-secretary.html?q=self-sufficiency

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