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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

THE FARMGATE PRICE of unmilled rice (palay) fell 17% year on year in January to an average of P20.69 per kilogram, after rice imports hit record levels last year. Month on month, the palay farmgate ...