Rice Crop Manager

(RCM)
A comprehensive decision
support tool for increasing yields
and income of farmers in the
Philippines
 Why is there a need for Rice
Crop Manager?
Outcome #1: Rice farmers will have easy access to
updated information for managing their
rice crop every season to help increase
their yield and income

Rice farmers need information

on efficient management tailored
to their field
 Information for managing rice
crop is disseminated every
cropping season

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Rice farmers need information

on efficient management tailored
to their field
 Why is there a need for Rice
Crop Manager?
Outcome #1: Rice farmers will have easy access to
updated information for managing their
rice crop every season to help increase
their yield and income

Outcome #2: Increase in farmer’s yield and income can

contribute to the well-being of the farmer,
family and community
 Use of the RCM recommendation
increases yield and income

Average yield
increase: 0.4 t/ha

Average income
increase:
P4,500/ha in a
season

Results for 749 trials conducted by PhilRice and IRRI in farmers’

fields with support from DA-BAR
 Why is there a need for Rice
Crop Manager?
Outcome #1: Rice farmers will have easy access to
updated information for managing their
rice crop every season to help increase
their yield and income

Outcome #2: Increase in farmer’s yield and income can

contribute to the well-being of the farmer,
family and community

Outcome #3: Increase in the production from rice

farming can contribute to local and
national rice self-sufficiency
 Benefits of RCM to farmers

• The country could have additional

production of 20,000 metric ton of
milled rice for each 100,000 hectares of
rice cultivation per season

• Total projected benefit if implemented

on 9,000 hectares with two crops per
year is about PhP 40 Million per year
What is Rice Crop
Manager?
 Rice Crop Manager is used by
extension workers to provide field-
specific recommendations to farmers
Laptop or PC

Printout
Smartphone

http://webapps.irri.org/ph/rcm
SMS reminders
 Farmer’s field gets a unique
one-page recommendation each season
Nutrient management:
 Right source
 Right amount
 Right timing

Crop management:
 Seed rate
 Weed management
 Crop health management
 Safe alternate wetting
and drying (SafeAWD)
 DA supports RCM project
Part A. Research Part B. Dissemination
(DA-BAR) (DA-ATI)

RCM

Continues to improve Ensures farmers and

RCM better through rice farming benefit
good science from science
Collaborative research: • large-scale deployment
• PhilRice and IRRI • maintenance and
• DA-RFOs and IRRI upgrading of app
 Use of the RCM recommendation
increases, on average, 0.4 t/ha yield
and ~PHP 4,800/ha income in a season

Results for 749 trials conducted by

PhilRice and IRRI in farmers’ fields
 RCM Advisory Service aims to
increase benefits to RCM farmers

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RCM had evolved into an advisory service with expanded

capabilities through complementary tools and services
integrated into one web-based platform
http://webapps.irri.org/ph/ras
 RCM Advisory Service uses ID
number to record historical information
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3
Register farmer using Print and distribute ID
Determine field card when field is
RCM Farmer and Field
area using GPS measured and verified
Registration to

4
generate ID number

Repeat steps 4, 5, 6 and 7 for the same field

on the succeeding cropping seasons
Interviewfarmers
Interview registered
with
farmers with the
RCM before RCM using
start of
the farmer ID number
the cropping

(DA-ATI)
7 Interview farmers to
6
initiate sending of auto-
Interview RCM farmers with generated SMS to a
RCM Farming Monitor after farmer’s phone
harvest to determine actual
practices and adoption of

5
RCM recommendation

Explain to farmer the SMS information

RCM recommendation service
RCM Statistics provides reports to
DA on the actual farmer’s practice
within the cropping season

Filter by:
Location
Date of interview,
sowing, or harvesting
For questions/comments about RCM

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Rice Crop
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