Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:09:04 +0000
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has assured the public that the National Food Authority (NFA) will still sell subsidized rice despite the passage of the Rice Import Liberalization Act.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:17:32 +0000
In a bid to encourage their residents to dispose of their waste properly, a barangay in Silang, Cavite came up with a project of giving the locals a kilogram of rice in exchange for a kilogram of plastic.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 04:44:25 +0000
About P36 million worth of hybrid palay, corn and assorted vegetable seeds were distributed to storm-hit farmers in Bicol.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 06:20:25 +0000
A Panamanian vessel carrying rice has been stranded in the Lingayen Gulf since Monday (Jan. 7).
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:23:37 +0000
Seven towns in Pangasinan, Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija provinces were forced to suspend planting rice for six months starting in November.
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The Bureau of Customs sealed off a warehouse in an industrial compound here on Friday for concealing an undetermined amount of smuggled rice.
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President Duterte’s directive to the National Food Authority (NFA) to maintain a 60-day buffer stock could be done only through importation, according to Senator Cynthia Villar.
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LOON, BOHOL—Some residents here returned the rice packs they received from the provincial government after they discovered that these were infested with “bukbok” (weevil).
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A representative of the farming sector told the House Committee on Appropriations on Monday that they “can” and “want” to sell their products to the National Food Authority (NFA) at a lower price than what rice traders offer.
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The government decision to allow the importation of an additional 132,000 metric tons (MT) of rice was laudable but came late, Davao City Rep. Karlo Nograles said Thursday.
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