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Experience Rice at SM Mall of Asia from November 23 to 26

November is National Rice Awareness Month. On November 23-26, an exhibit at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall will give everybody a chance to experience rice.

Experience Rice @ SM Mall of Asia
November 23 to 26, 2009

I. ACTIVITIES

November 23, 2009 Let’s Care for the Environment
10:00 AM Opening Ceremony
1:00 PM Story telling/ Stage Play/ Games
2:00 PM Lecture: Rice and Climate Change
3:00 PM Lecture: Rice and the Environment

November 24, 2009 Let’s Invest in Rice
1:00 PM Story telling/ Stage Play/Games
2:00 PM Lecture: Investment opportunities in rice
3:00 PM Lecture: Social businesses and rice
4:00 PM How I succeeded in Rice Farming

November 25, 2009 Rice ProductionInnovations
1:00 PM Story telling/ Stage Play/ Games
2:00 PM Lecture: Rice production technologies
3:00 PM Lecture: Rice engineering and Mechanization
4:00 PM How I succeeded in Rice Farming

November 26, 2009 Science Behind Rice R&D
1:00 PM Story telling/ Stage Play/Games
2:00 PM Lecture: Plant breeding and biotechnology
3:00 PM Lecture: Rice Crop Management
4:00 PM Lecture: Rice Chemistry and Food Science
5:00 PM Closing Program – Rock Concert – Sing for Rice!

II. EXHIBITS

Story telling — Rice folklore and legends

Film showing — Rice production videos

Machineries in the fields — Showcase of selected machines that make rice farming easier. Children can touch and ride on the machines for actual “field” experience.

Palayamanan scale model — Children will see an actual rice field with bahay kubo and plants with the scale model of a Palayamanan household.

Meet and greet Palayman — Palayman, PhilRice’s mascot, will delight children as they meet and greet this humanized rice grain. He represents progressive, modern farmers.

Food products — Tasting of delicious rice-based delicacies and snack foods from all over the Philippines.

Seeds and varieties — Different colored varieties of rice can be seen in this booth.

Photo booth — Rice fields will be used in the photo booth. Various farm implements can also be used as props.

Different rice varieties — Children will see for themselves the difference between ipa, bigas, and palay as they see, touch and smell the different forms that rice undergoes before it gets to the dinner table.

Rice mosaic booth — Art activities await exhibit guests! Kids can do their own rice artwork.

Rice coffee booth — Bookworms will love this booth where they can read about rice over a hot cup of rice coffee.

Fan sign– Entries to the “I love rice” fan sign will be displayed here.

Freedom wall — What’s on your mind? Write them down at the freedom wall.

For more information, visit Experience Rice’s Facebook event page.

This announcement made through Chona Suner-Narvadez. Photo on billboard courtesy of stock.xchng.

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