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‘1.5 million tons of palay could be lost to El Niño’

About 1.5 million metric tons of palay (unhusked rice) could be lost due to El Niño’s threat to irrigation systems, a projection by the...

Fingers in the dike

"Why in heaven’s name should Comelec spend to automate barangay and that useless SK elections, when all the voter needs to write are a...

More rice depots padlocked

Customs agents and lawmakers led by Speaker Martin Romualdez on Wednesday raided four warehouses in Bulacan province that yielded P519 million worth of rice...

Palay drying

Farmers scatter their newly harvested palay for drying along a street in Manaoag, Pangasinan. The retail prices of rice are expected to rise five pesos per...

Palay as a lucky charm

A young child sells Palay stalks as a lucky charm at a price of P20 each along the street of Abad Santos in Divisoria,...

Drying up

Farmers spread palay to dry along the road at barangay Alapan-1 in Imus, Cavite on Oct. 16 after Typhoon Ofel battered Calabarzon.

NFA buys 2 million bags of palay from farmers

The National Food Authority said Friday it bought 2 million bags of palay, or paddy rice, from farmers in September, representing 40.5 percent of...

‘Palay’ bought at low prices–Recto

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the Department of Agriculture should look into reported low buying price of palay with farmers taking to...

DA: Ecija buys P200m in palay from farmers

San Fernando, Pampanga—Nueva Ecija has started buying palay from farmers using local funds amounting to P200 million to cushion the impact of the Rice...

NFA hikes palay buy goal to beef up buffer stock

The National Food Authority (NFA) has increased its rice purchasing target to 1.14 million metric tons (MT) from 389,000 MT of palay (unhusked rice)...

CL farmers see 3.6-m ton rice yield

San Fernando, Pampanga—Central Luzon, the rice granary of the country, continues to have bountiful harvests despite markets being flooded by imported rice. Benjamin Balthazar, operations...

Rice, corn output higher in Q2

Palay or unmilled rice production and corn output in the second quarter of the year are expected to be higher than in the same...
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