President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. ordered a 60-day suspension of all rice imports starting September 1, 2025, to protect local farmers struggling with plummeting...
Agriculture officials are calling for the restoration of key regulatory powers to the National Food Authority (NFA), saying the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) curtailed...
The latest Rice Outlook published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted the Philippines as the top importing country for rice in...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. over the weekend assured consumers that the country had a sufficient supply of rice, and told farmers that the Philippines...
As DA reviews Rice Tariffication Law, studies reviving NFA importation
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the officials at the Department of Agriculture (DA) to...
The Philippines, an erstwhile rice-exporting country, has mothballed plans to import rice from Vietnam, a fellow member in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
Philippine International Trading Corp. cancelled the planned government-to-government importation of 300,000 metric tons of rice which are supposed to arrive in the lean months...
A partylist congresswoman on Thursday urged the suspension of rice importation to alleviate the financial problem of farmers caused by low farm gate prices.
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President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night confirmed that he had ordered Agriculture Secretary William Dar to suspend rice importation, as he asked Congress to...
The National Food Authority Council approved Tuesday the amended implementing rules and regulations on rice importation that include suggestions and recommendations of farmers and...
The Federation of Free Farmers warned that the signing of the rice tariffication bill will render the government powerless to control price spikes and...
