THE public does not need to worry about any possible rice shortage or price spikes during the El Niño months, said National Food Authority (NFA) regional information officer Mary Agnes Militante. She said there is enough supply…
BAD weather has isolated the remote island towns of Camotes in northeaast Cebu. With boat trips cancelled, the town of Pilar and parts of Tudela are running out of food and other supplies, said officials. This has…
THE Cebu City Council yesterday passed a resolution pushing for an inspection of all warehouses and stores for fake rice. The resolution, authored by Councilor Alvin Dizon, also urged the regional offices of the Department of Agriculture…
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will auction 120 container vans of rice on the second week of December. Kenneth Sesante, chief of staff of the BOC Port of Cebu, said the 120 container vans were part…
Five customs brokers, including two Cebuanos, are facing smuggling cases filed by the Bureau of Customs before the Department of Justice yesterday morning for their alleged involvement in the unlawful importation of over 12.8 million kilograms rice.…
There’s enough supply of rice in Central and Eastern Visayas, an official of the National Food Authority (NFA) said last Friday. Lucy Rosales, NFA-7 spokesperson, gave this assurance after two vessels carrying rice from Vietnam arrived at…
A worker of the National Food Authority (NFA) was stabbed dead by his neighbor in barangay Pardo Cebu City last Friday night. Dennis Arcete, 38, was walking in an alley when he was repeatedly stabbed allegedly by…
THE National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI 7) is investigating two companies in Cebu for allegedly hoarding several sacks of rice. “Hoarding means stockpiling sacks of rice or cutting the supply of rice so prices…
Consumers are complaining that they are being forced to buy the expensive variety of NFA rice, before they can buy the cheaper NFA variety. This was done by some retailers of Bigasan ng Bayan outlets in Metro…
The National Food Authority (NFA) regional office said there won’t be a rice shortage even if the region’s rice production areas were affected by supertyphoon Yolanda. NFA lawyer Danilo Bonabon said Central Visayas consumes 35,000 sacks of…
