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WITH water shortage, fire and flooding as top concerns in Metro Cebu, the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu aims to help make communities and local government units (LGUs) more resilient through its researches. This was underscored by research groups from the state university during the Communicating Science and Technology, Research & Development (CoST-UP) Media Brunch on Friday, April 26.

How is that again? Rice sufficiency with the use of corn?

Indeed, this is what Dr. Artemio M. Salazar, a retired research professor at the College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS), believes in.

“Rice sufficiency does not have to be achieved through rice alone but could be achieved with the help of corn,” he said. Dr. Salazar, who used to head the Cereals Section of the Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB), CAFS, shares this belief with his team of plant breeders and agricultural extensionists.