The Department of Agriculture (DA) will go after traders who are taking advantage of farmers by buying their palay (unmilled ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it instructed the National Food Authority (NFA) to identify parts of the country ...

Filipino chef Fhred Batalona has opened Palay with Ralph Libo-on and Michael Mabuti ( Askal, Kariton Sorbetes ). The star of ...

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 ...

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MANILA, Philippines — Philippine rice imports are projected to hit a record-high 5.5 million metric tons (MT) in 2026. This will maintain the country’s ranking as the world’s biggest ...

The NFA said farmers were encouraged to sell by the agency’s palay (unmilled rice) buying price that averaged P27 a kilo last year and around P24 this year. The NFA said it still has ample funds to ...

(The other factor why we needed to do this in the DA is because our warehouses are really overwhelmed by rice and palay.) “Rumarami rin talaga ‘yung stocks natin of palay and rice no and rice ...

As of April 24, the NFA’s inventory consisted of 10.1 million bags of palay (unmilled rice) and 1.2 million bags of milled rice—enough to feed the entire country for 10 days. This figure is the ...

But we took away their power. We need to restore the NFA’s capacity to intervene—buy palay from farmers, sell affordable rice, and bridge the gap between supply and the needs of every Filipino.) ...

Rice farmers in Casiguran, Aurora are now feeling the pinch as farm gate prices of palay continue to fall, leaving hundreds of sacks in storage. Many farmers said their newly harvested palay has been ...

Currently, the agency has 358,000 tons of palay in storage. On Sunday, the agriculture secretary ordered that hundreds to thousands of 50-kilo bags of rice be moved from Mindoro warehouses to ...