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CEBU CITY, Philippines – With the issuance of the Executive Order 39, some rice retailers at the Mandaue City Public Market expressed concern on the future of their business if prices from suppliers remain high. President Ferdinand…
MANILA, Philippines — The Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) on Wednesday urged the government to limit the implementation of the price ceiling on rice to two to three weeks, warning that prolonging such a regulation could bankrupt…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — An official from the Department of Trade and Industry in Central Visayas (DTI-7) has reiterated their focus on monitoring the price ceilings mandated by the president. The implementation of the Executive Order (EO)…
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, advised the public to consider alternative sources of carbohydrates to rice amid fears of a rice stock shortage after the government implemented a price…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — An official from the National Food and Authority in Central Visayas (NFA-7) said that there is sufficient supply of NFA rice ready in case of calamities or disaster. “We assure the public that…
MANILA, Philippines — Retail prices of rice in Metro Manila started to decline on Tuesday, the first day the price ceiling on the Filipino staple food took effect, according to a monitoring conducted by the Department of…
NEW DELHI— Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in…
Can the President resurrect his late father’s signature farm program and achieve unequivocal success this time around? Experts had described as both a success and a failure the 1970s Masagana 99 program that aimed for rice self-sufficiency…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Since the Philippines is a tropical country, coconut is among its primary crops. The coconut industry is one of the vital sectors of agriculture in the country. According to Philippine Council for Agriculture,…
As expected, the economy grew at a significantly slower pace in the first quarter of this year (6.4 percent) than it did a year ago (8.3 percent). There are several reasons for this. On the production or…
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Cotabato, Philippines — In this capital of Cotabato province, residents have a chance to buy rice at P20 per kilogram every Saturday, in a scheme adopted by the local government to assist the farmers and…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7) is implementing measures to ease the effects in agriculture of the coming El Niño phenomenon. Dr. Angel Enriquez, executive regional director of DA-7, said these…
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