"To enhance the resiliency and competitiveness of the Filipino rice farmers while ensuring the country's access to safe and nutritious rice, the DA-National Rice Program delves into productivity, profitability, and betterment of lives of rice farmers through the development and introduction of improved and state-of-the-art rice farming technologies. Various R4D projects on rice and rice-based farming systems implemented by the bureau's partner institutions on rice RDE were initiated and continually undertaken."