MANILA, Philippines---The Department of Agriculture's (DA) promotion of the use of hybrid seeds is seen to help in attaining rice self-sufficiency in two years, but this will not be possible if the government "will not trust our own farmers, our own people."   Teodoro Mendoza, a retired crop science professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baos, said this as the DA started working on promoting the use of hybrid seeds instead of certified seeds on 1.5 million hectares of land.   READ: DA eyes planting of hybrid seeds in 1.5M hectares of land across PH   Last Friday (Feb. 17), the DA said it is now preparing a "strategy plan" in a bid to increase ...Keep on reading: Gov’t told to produce hybrid seeds to control costs