The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday expressed support for the proposed Rice Industry and Consumer Empowerment (RICE) ...

THE rice inventory fell 2.9% month on month to 2.24 million metric tons (MMT) as of June 1, according to government data. Year on year, inventory rose 3.5% from 2.16 MMT previously. As of June 1, 44.7 ...

The government’s sale of subsidized rice at P20 per kilo contributed to the increase in the country’s demand for the staple in the previous market year, an international agency said.

SEN. Francis Pangilinan called on the National Food Authority (NFA) to immediately buy palay (unhusked rice) directly from ...

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. over the weekend assured farmers that prices of palay or unmilled rice will not ...

The P20-per-kilo rice is “here to stay,” President Marcos declared yesterday, but beneficiaries would be limited to ...

Despite some farmers’ laments on its “unsustainability,” President Marcos assured the public that the P20-per-kilo rice program “is here to stay,” describing it as ...

About 1,000 residents in Mamburao town, Occidental Mindoro belonging to the vulnerable sector benefited from the government’s ...

Benteng Bigas Meron Na Program’ has reached the province of Antique with 105 minimum wage earners as its initial ...

SAYING that his initiative to sell rice at P20 a kilo is not a band-aid solution, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced ...

Assures no income loss for farmers President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. assured consumers that the P20 per kilo rice initiative is ...

PASSAGE of the proposed Rice Industry and Consumer Empowerment (RICE) Act or RICE Act is expected to be fast-tracked in the ...