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DA fast-tracks reforms for fair, affordable rice

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is accelerating efforts to finalize nationwide consultations on the proposed amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), confident that...

Different strokes

“What management style do people see these days?” For this article, I am borrowing the title of a popular sitcom in the mid-70s till 80s,...

New NFA warehouse coming up in Cauayan

CAUAYAN City—The National Food Authority (NFA) recently broke ground for the construction of a modern warehouse in the city. NFA Administrator Larry Lacson led the...

Japan provides P664m to enhance PH rice supply chain

The Government of Japan has allocated ¥1.7 billion (approximately P664 million) to support the buffer stocking mandate of the National Food Authority (NFA), through...

Philippine money supply grows 6.6% to P18.6 trillion

Philippine domestic liquidity (M3), or the amount of money circulating in the economy, grew 6.6 percent year-on-year to P18.6 trillion in August 2025, the...

PBBM: EO to stabilize palay prices

Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. said Monday that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set to issue an executive order authorizing emergency government...

Farmers group asks government to restore 35% rice import tariff

The Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) has renewed its call for the government to restore the 35-percent tariff on rice imports to help address...

DA wants law amended to restore key NFA powers

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking to restore key regulatory powers of the National Food Authority (NFA) by amending the Rice Tariffication Law...

NFA opens 18 Luzon warehouses selling P20 rice to farmers

The National Food Authority (NFA) has opened 18 warehouses across Central and Northern Luzon to sell affordable rice to farmers and farm workers under...

Money in circulation in the Philippines reaches P18.6 trillion

Domestic liquidity (M3) grew 6.3 percent year-on-year to P18.6 trillion in June 2025, faster than the 5.5-percent increase seen in May, data from the...

DA warns of rice industry’s collapse under Rice Tariffication Law

Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has warned that the country’s rice farming sector faces collapse unless the Rice Tariffication Law...

Gov’t budgets P18 billion for 2026 rice subsidy

Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel confirmed that the government allocated P18 billion for the rollout of the P20-per-kilogram rice program in 2026,...

Congress opens 20th session with first bills filed

Reelected Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, who served as Speaker of the 19th Congress, opened the 20th Congress by filing House Bill No....

NFA’s rice ruse risks a nation’s hunger

“The nation deserves a rice system that feeds its people, not its dysfunction” NUEVA Ecija’s scorching fields, Mang Lito, a grizzled rice farmer, tears his...
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