ROMUALDEZ BOOSTS RICE RATOONING PROGRAM —–  Leyte (1st Dist) Rep.Ferdinand Martin “FM” Romualdez (4th right) meets with Sta Fe, Leyte Mayor Oscar Monteza (3rd right) and Councilors from left Eduardo Torreros, Marvin Collado,Karen Abuyabor (fiancee of Collado) ,Bong Echague, Municipal Secretary Romeo Grisola, and ABC Pres.Belen Chuca, to discuss the rice ratooning program and provide rice seeds for farmers in Yolanda-stricken  Sta Fe.Cong Romualdez in partnership with the Department of Agriculture in Region 8 will start distributing seeds in line with the rice ratooning program.Ratooning or double harvest is an indigenous practice in rice famrning that induces the formation of shoots ratoons from the mother crop after the previous growth has been cut back.It’s one of the potential and attractive alternative technologies to increase rice production.photo by VER NOVENO