Case Study

Season

Luna, Isabela – Rice

January 3, 2025

Dumangan Prime Inc together with sir Romeo Mauricio, the officer in charge for rice in Golden Season Grains Center, Inc. which is an accomplished manufacturer, exceptional trader and a major distributor of rice in the Philippines together with the farmers who applied the fertilizer. Field is around 2.8 hectares in total.

Rice is 15 DAT as of now. 600 kgs of NPK were applied together with 8.8 kg of DPF.

January 23, 2025

Today is 35 DAT of rice. Also, this will be the second application of DPF which is 16.66 kg. Upon interviewing the farmers, they noticed that the demo field is greener than the control field.

Upon checking the back part of the field, there are some spots that seem to be affected. The assumption is that it may be caused by the herbicide applied by the sides of the field or may also be affected by either rats or snails.

Upon data gathering, here are the following results:

It is evident that the roots are longer and thicker compared to the control field.

February 7, 2025

Third application of DPF wherein 17 kgs in total were applied together with 400 kgs of NPK.

February 27, 2025

Today is 69 DAT of the rice field. As per Sir Romeo, expected harvest will be on end of March to 1st week of April depending on the weather conditions in the next following days.

As per observation, some parts are in the flowering stage while some are already in the grain filling stage.

In total, 56.4 kilogram of DPF was applied for the 2.8 hectare. Hence, 20.14 kg was used per hectare.