The National Food Authority (NFA) procured over 2.4 million 50-kilogram bags of palay in October, the highest level in three ...

Lower fertilizer prices and higher yields allowed palay farmers last year to cut their production costs to a three-year low, ...

The Philippines nearly became self-sufficient in rice in 2013, six years before Congress approved a measure that would transform the local rice industry. That year, the self-sufficiency ratio of rice ...

Improved yield and competitive buying prices bolstered the palay procurement of the National Food Authority (NFA) by 263.9 ...

The average yield of palay in Iloilo was 3.4 MT per hectare in 2023, below the national average yield of 4.2 MT per hectare. “If rains come during the flowering stage, they could significantly impact ...

The average palay production cost last year dropped by almost 11 percent on an annual basis to below P14 per kilo, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.

The office of the National Food Authority (NFA) in Bulacan has surpassed its palay procurement target for this year. Rhona ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday that it downgraded its palay (unmilled rice) production forecast for this year due to the spate of tropical cyclones that hit the country late in the ...

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MANILA, Philippines—There are 2.4 million rice ... work as farmers who till palay land in exchange for a share of the harvest. RELATED STORY: Govt’s willful neglect of consumers and farmers ...