Missing fundamentals Workers plant rice in Los Banos town, in the Laguna province. The Philippines agriculture and fisheries sector remains far from modernised, according to experts. - AFP
Every day, 98-year-old Melencio Maniego walks the narrow earthen banks between his 16-hectare rice fields to inspect his crops.
“I’ve planted Chinese hybrid rice for over a decade,” the Filipino said, gazing across the green and yellow paddies in Central Luzon, dubbed “rice granary of the Philippines”.
