THE farmgate price of palay (unmilled rice) fell 18.9% year on year in February to an average of P20.29 per kilogram, after rice imports hit record levels last year. The Philippine Statistics ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday said the approved additional PHP10 billion is crucial for the rehabilitation of the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses and for buying palay ...

National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro are reportedly holding hundreds of thousands of sacks of unmilled palay, some of which have been stored for up to two years, ...

MANILA, Philippines — With the palay harvest season approaching amid the dry season, the Department of Agriculture (DA) and National Food Authority (NFA) were urged to step up monitoring of ...

QUEZON CITY, (PIA) — The National Food Authority (NFA) is now purchasing palay from farmers at competitive prices—P24 per kilo for dry palay and P18 per kilo for fresh palay. This initiative aims to ...

Farmers in Mangaldan, Pangasinan are delaying the sale of their newly harvested palay as prices remain low, dropping to P17.50 per kilo compared to the P27 to P28 per kilo last year. Eddie Mayugba, a ...

Newly delivered rice from Regions 2 and 3 is stored at a National Food Authority warehouse in Valenzuela on Monday, January 20, 2025. The National Food Authority (NFA) urged farmers to invest more ...

THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS 99% OF FIELDS IN GUIMBA ARE IRRIGATED. PHOTO: LEILANI CHAVEZ FOR PCIJ SAN JOSE CITY — Rice miller Marivic Violago-Belen was on the stairs of her family’s home in San ...

DROUGHT. A rice field affected by the dry spell brought by El Niño in southern Negros Occidental in this undated photo. The province’s palay production decreased by 11.97 percent in 2024 due to El ...

The LGU allocated P7.2 million to buy 314,000 kilos of palay (unhusked rice) harvested in October of last year. Mayor Nonato Abrenica said the municipality purchased palay at P23 per kg—P1 ...

The sharp decline in palay (unmilled rice) prices across the country, particularly during the dry-season harvest, is a result of the government’s policy of unlimited rice importation and tariff cuts ...

(PNA photo by Ben Briones) MANILA – The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday said the approved additional PHP10 billion is crucial for the rehabilitation of the National Food Authority (NFA) ...