Cordillera organic rice finds a strong market at home

BAGUIO CITY ? Organic rice grown in the Cordillera’s upland farms, including the Ifugao rice terraces, have been directed at an American market in the last four years. But a growing domestic demand for Benguet ‘kintoman’ and Kalinga ‘unoy’ may mean a more sustainable trade finally for mountain rice, according to traders and experts who participated in an organic rice fair here recently. Cordillera growers, some of whom exported indigenous Cordillera rice varieties to the United States under the brand ‘Eighth Wonder,’ displayed their products at the Malcolm Square here recently to showcase the progress made in marketing Kalinga’s red and violet rice, which some restaurants offer for such a…

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Cordillera organic rice finds a strong market at home