The country’s rice self-sufficiency ratio (SSR) recovered to 78.5 percent last year, following a 24-year low of 77 percent in ...

Rice and corn production in the Ilocos Region in the third quarter of 2024 jumped from year-ago levels despite the weather ...

The Commission on Audit (COA) flagged the National Food Authority (NFA) for the P5 billion worth of loss it incurred after it ...

Improved yield and competitive buying prices bolstered the palay procurement of the National Food Authority (NFA) by 263.9 ...

The Philippines nearly became self-sufficient in rice in 2013, six years before Congress approved a measure that would transform the local rice industry. That year, the self-sufficiency ratio of rice ...

PHILIPPINE rice imports amounted to 4.35 million metric tons (MMT) as of early December, the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) said. According to the BPI, rice imports as of Dec. 5 had surpassed the 3.61 ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) and industry stakeholders lauded the signing of Republic Act No. 12078, which amended the law lifting import ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) said on Monday that it procured 123,561 metric tons (MT) of palay, or unmilled rice, in October, equivalent to 2.47 million sacks of 50 kilograms each. In a report, ...

Montemayor explained that farmgate prices of palay have been falling due to the influx of imported rice. He added that the wholesale price should only have a markup of P2 to P4 per kilogram when ...

Republic Act 4054, or the Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act, provides that these tenants, most of them landless, work as farmers who till palay land in exchange for a share of the harvest.

The new law also extends the implementation of the Rice Fund up to 2031 and triples its annual allocation to P30 billion ...