MANILA, Philippines - The country’s rice imports are expected to decline this year but remain large enough to drive down the ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. yesterday blamed past administrations for current woes in the agriculture ...

The government’s rice tariff collections in January plunged by 70 percent on an annual basis because of lower tariff rate and ...

The Philippines, the largest rice importer globally, can breathe a little easier now that India has chosen to relax its restrictions on exports of this essential food staple. This and the harvest of ...

Global rice prices plummet due to oversupply, stiff competition; Vietnam, Pakistan offer most competitive rates, Thailand ...

MANILA, Philippines—With over 17 million poor ... serve just a few thousand families nationwide.” The DA said the rice harvest season, which is set to begin mid-February, will see the NFA ...

Xinhua writers Zhang Yisheng, Nie Xiaoyang MANILA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Every day, 98-year-old Melencio Maniego walks the narrow earthen banks ...

As crises linked to global warming worsen, advocates call for farmers and fishermen to be given better access to climate ...

The sharp decline in palay (unmilled rice) prices across the country, particularly during the dry-season harvest, is a result ...

Rice import arrivals breached 500,000 metric tons (MT) as of end-February, according to the latest government data. Figures from the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) showed that 504,726.708 MT of rice ...

MANILA: The Philippines’ rice stockpile increased by 6.4 per cent ... due to its “flexible” pricing scheme and the upcoming harvest season. “Our stocks will increase towards the end ...