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Beyond rice price populism

By Sonny Africa Rice farmers are moreover forced to accept whatever traders with monopsony (buying) power offer them The knee-jerk price control on rice through President...

DSWD to provide cash aid to retailers affected by price cap on rice

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will provide cash aid to local grain retailers who may be affected by the admin’s plan...

‘Rice price ceiling targets hoarders’

• DTI eyes subsidies for small retailers • Speaker: Govt seeks win-win solution The price ceilings on rice that will take effect Sept. 5 will not...

Palace: Rice price ceilings take effect Sept. 5

The implementation of the mandated price ceilings for rice will start on Sept. 5, Malacañang said late Friday. The clarification was made after Executive Order...

Pricey rice

A worker at a rice dealer at Nepa Q-Mart in Cubao, Quezon City arranges their supply of different rice varieties, including ‘dinorado’ rice that...

Demand management

"A diet of rice plus instant noodles has led to malnutrition and stunting, breeding a nation of—I hate to say it— future morons" It certainly...

AGRI party-list urges gov’t to focus on rice self-sufficiency, warns against dependence on imports

Rep. Wilbert T. Lee of AGRI party-list group on Friday warned against being overly dependent on rice imports as he said the Philippinesshould focus...

Meeting on rice

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. meets with the Private Sector Advisory Council on Tuesday to discuss the condition of the rice industry and the...

Marcos assures farmers: Gov’t won’t import rice if supply enough

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. over the weekend assured consumers that the country had a sufficient supply of rice, and told farmers that the Philippines...

Whistling in the dark

"While I keep writing about my worries, I keep hoping I am wrong" The good news is inflation has cooled down to 4.7 percent, according...

Inflation slows further to 4.7%

Now at 16-month low, but Statistics Authority wary of rising rice prices Inflation in July 2023 eased further to a 16-month low of 4.7 percent...

PBBM worried price of rice may rise with low PH stocks

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is meeting officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) today as he is worried that the recent storms and the...

PBBM: Power, rice needs of North come first after ‘Egay’

Prioritize power restoration and ensure rice supply for families affected by Typhoon “Egay,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered officials on Saturday as he visited...

Gov’t mulls rice, corn ‘hub and spoke’ tack

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the Department of Agriculture (DA) to study the feasibility of a private sector proposal to set up storage...
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