Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Ariel T. Cayanan (2nd from left) joins the hybrid rice Grand Harvest Festival using SL-8H Super Hybrid Seeds of SL-Agritech Corporation in Lubao, Pampanga on March 7, 2018. SL-Agritech has been a major partner of DA in promoting hybrid rice and other modern scientific farming technology to increase rice productivity. In line with the Masaganang Ani 200 program of the department, DA expects one million hectares of farmland to be planted with hybrid seeds before the end of the Duterte administration in 2020. Also in photo are (L-R): SL –Agritech Chairman and CEO Henry Lim Bon Liong, Lubao farmer-cooperator Randy Martin, and SL-Agritech Senior Technical Consultant Frisco Malabanan. ### (Photo by Alan Jay Jacalan, DA-AFID)
