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

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

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

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 (PSA). The PSA reported that the ...

IN the past, we agriculture academics and analysts complained about the relatively low funding devoted to the sector's ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Sunday said it would allocate P82.5 million more to boost rice production in farms in Iloilo province. In a statement, the agency said the extra budget would fund ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cost of producing palay (unmilled rice) could increase even if farm input prices remain unchanged as weather disturbances have slashed yields, according to the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF).

No less than the Department of Agriculture (DA) had said that the high cost of farm inputs, especially fertilizers, “pose a ...

BASKETBALL in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan, found a passionate ally this year in Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, ...