A consumer group on Wednesday urged the government to focus its efforts on curbing the smuggling of agricultural food staples rather than use rising...
Speaker Martin Romualdez on Tuesday urged “profit-hungry traders” manipulating or hoarding the supply and prices of agricultural products, particularly onions to “moderate their greed”...
Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda on Saturday vowed to go after a Chinese syndicate controlling the supply of imported agricultural products in the Philippines.
Meanwhile,...
Customs agents assigned at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) have seized more than P171 million worth of smuggled agricultural products, including fresh red...
Citing the benefits of planting for the environment, Senator Cynthia A. Villar urged the public to participate in planting activities.
Aside from making the environment...
Agricultural products must be thoroughly inspected to prevent smuggling and the introduction of diseases, an industry group said Sunday as it urged the government...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is preparing charges against the alleged protectors and smugglers of agricultural products tagged in a previous Senate report, Acting...
Customs chief, DA officials, mayors highlight Senate report’s list
A Senate report released Monday has identified Customs Commissioner Rey Guerrero and 21 other personalities as...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Sunday said the National Intelligence Coordination Agency (NICA) will submit the names of suspected smugglers of agricultural products.
Sotto,...
WIth imported agricultural products flooding the local market, Sen. Cynthia Villar renewed her call to protect the farmers and run after the smugglers of...
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said Monday he will disclose the names of high-ranking government officials linked in the smuggling of agricultural products...
A powerful House committee is looking at ways to strengthen the country’s laws against smuggling of agricultural products and increasing penalties on the offenders.
Albay...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel F. Zubiri yesterday raised the alarm over the unabated price increases of agricultural inputs, particularly of fertilizers, that have...
About P1 billion smuggled agricultural products have been documented by the Office Of Senate President Vicente Sotto III based on the 25 anti-smuggling operations...
