Innovation In PH Agriculture, And PRRD Knows One: Dalisay Rice

Update: From the new head of the PH Department of Agriculture, DA, new added instruction, 21 September 2019: 

"DA must be an institution of Innovation" –
William Dar/Manong Willie.
I say, Yes Sir!

Image above: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte applauds as he unveils the marker of the revolutionary Dalisay rice processing system during its inauguration in Alangalang, Leyte 05 July 2019 (photo by Valerie Escalera, pcoo.gov.ph).

From Paris had come the innovative idea of a peasant & pleasant rice, from India innovative partnership & public servant-leadership – and on 11 September 2019, they united to make exciting news in the dull Philippine science scene.

Together, physically they launched Dalisay Rice by the Renuccis. In reality, they also launched #1 of Manong Willie's Eight Paradigms of the New PH Agriculture:

Modernizing Agriculture.

Innovation with investments from the private sector; the owners & creators of Dalisay Rice, Patrick & Rachel Renucci, have invested a billion or two PH pesos on the overall business undertaking, innovating as they decided to leave glitzy Paris and come and live in grassy Leyte in the middle of the Philippine islands starting 2015.

And so Wednesday, 11 September 2019, Patrick & Rachel Renucci launched their Dalisay Rice at the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Manila in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila.

Innovation from the top

The guest speaker was the 1 month-old Secretary of Agriculture William Dar, whose innovative science management fame precedes him, being the only 3-term Director General, DG, of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, from January 2000 to December 2014, and Secretary of Agriculture under President Joseph Estrada. As Team Captain, he made ICRISAT #1 among the 15 international science centers in the CGIAR group. As Secretary of Agriculture, he made the unenviable record of the highest PH aggie growth of 9.6% ever!

Even before PRRD appointed him Secretary of Agriculture, he already had revolutionized PH Agriculture with his own Roadbook (my term), calling it "The New Thinking for Agriculture," embedding The Eight Paradigms necessary "to level up" PH agriculture. (Lower half of image above, I have written a book on the paradigms – titled in Paradigms Lost, in Paradigms Regained – which you can have free if you email me, frankahilario@gmail.com.)

Innovation from below

From Paris with love have come the Renuccis, designing from scratch what I now call the Farmer-Businessmind-Technology-Market Approach for PH Agriculture, where instead of the farmholdings, you consolidate the inputs, throughputs and outputs forward to the finished product. This is looking at the scene from the farmer's field.

The Renuccis have indeed modernized not only on Philippine agriculture but global agriculture – a new system of coming up with a product that socializes the values along the chain from seed to spoon.

Mr Dar is not new to innovation. As Director General of ICRISAT, he introduced the concept of inclusive market-oriented development, IMOD, where the poor farmers are treated fairly and rewarded squarely for their labors.

As it turns out, without realizing it, the Renuccis have applied IMOD in coming up with Dalisay Rice. Mabuhay!@517