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NFA bids out supply of 250k MT Rice buffer stock to Asian firms

At least 21 companies from various Asian countries are expected to participate in the open tender bidding today, May 22, for the supply of...

Government scraps rice import quota

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday his order to scrap the rice importation quota during the non-harvest season would allow the National Food Authority to...

A threat to food security

We were alarmed by recent news about our country’s depleting rice supply. A week ago, the National Food Authority conducted a nationwide inspection and...

Irresponsible NFA

The National Food Authority again roiled the market when one senior official conceded that the agency has run out of cheap rice supply. The...

Rice price manipulation cannot be done–traders

THE Philippine Confederation of Grains Associations on Thursday relieved speculations rice millers were manipulating the price of rice in the country, saying it was...

NFA ready for aggressive palay buying–Aquino

The National Food Authority is fully ready in terms of logistics, funds and personnel to buy as much local palay harvest as possible to...

Sabotage raps vs Faeldon, NFA chief et al

SENATOR Panfilo Lacson on Thursday filed charges of graft, smuggling or economic sabotage and grave misconduct against former Bureau of Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon...

Palace: Ex-Usec against rice farmers

THE Palace on Sunday said President Rodrigo Duterte sacked Undersecretary Chiara Halmen Reina Valdez of the Office of the Cabinet Secretary because she insisted...

Public bickering

WE expect a certain amount of tension in a Cabinet where competing interests and even ideologies are represented, but the bickering that marks President...

Food security

Once again the food security conundrum is in the news. Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr., under whose supervision Executive Order No. 1 of President Rodrigo...

NFA chief, deputy liable for graft, says council

THE National Food Authority Council will hold food officials liable for making a cash cow out of government-led importations, Cabinet Secretary Leoncio B. Evasco...

Food chief faces ouster for defying rice policy

NATIONAL Food Authority Administrator Jason Aquino faces disciplinary sanctions that could lead to his removal over his repeated defiance of the orders of the...
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