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.

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 ...

Three years after the supply of subsidized rice in the market came to a standstill, the Department of Agriculture (DA) recommended that National Food Authority (NFA) rice be made available again ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. assured the public that the government’s PHP20 per kilo rice program is not a temporary ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared that the P20 per kilo rice program will continue and expand to more public ...

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

Allowing the National Food Authority to import rice is a last option for the government, an official of the Department of Agriculture said yesterday amid opposition from farmers’ groups to ...

The nation deserves a rice system that feeds its people, not its dysfunction” NUEVA Ecija’s scorching fields, Mang Lito, a grizzled rice farmer, tears ...

MANILA, Philippines - The National Food Authority (NFA) is prepared to purchase more palay (unmilled rice) from local farmers—even after building the highest rice inventory in five years—to ...

NFA Administrator Larry Lacson said the grains agency’s stockpile reached 8.19 million 50-kilo bags or 409,000 metric tons (MT) of rice equivalent. “Our current buffer stock is good for 10.7 ...

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