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WHEN disaster strikes, two problems immediately surface: hunger and malnutrition. According to Pilmico’s press release, the common go-to relief donation for communities contains rice, noodles, and coffee. These are good but simply do not carry the nutritional…
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) launched yesterday its Brown Rice for Good challenge to promote its consumption by the public and help charities at the same time. Their launching in downtown Cebu City was attended by Presidential…
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said Vietnam and the Philippines should consider extending their rice trade deal, which will expire at the end of this year, for a new period…
The National Food Authority (NFA) regional office yesterday assured that there is enough rice supply for Central Visayas in the next two months. Nestor Alcoseba, NFA 7 assistant regional director, said around 2.18 million bags of imported…
REQUIRING food outlets in Cebu to offer a half cup of rice in their menus would require province-wide level consultations to make it a reality, Provincial Board (PB) Member Alex Binghay said. “We need to know the…
At breakfast – eggs, rice, stewed fish – I thought of works of fiction associated with the morning meal. Easily, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions” came to mind. At first I dismissed it, because it…
I am appalled by the stony silence of President Noynoy Aquino on the violent dispersal of the protesting farmers in Kidapawan, North Cotabato who were only in the streets hoping to receive assistance from the local government…
ASTURIAS Mayor Alan Adlawan called on the National Food Authority yesterday to set up warehouses filled with rice stocks outside of Cebu City. “We have to buy rice from Badian town whose warehouse is in the south…
FIVE more vessels loaded with imported rice will arrive in Cebu soon, the National Food Authority (NFA) said. Olma Marie Bayno, assistant information officer of NFA-7, said each vessel carries around 120,000 sacks of rice from Vietnam…
The National Food Authority (NFA) and Cebu Port Authority (CPA) have identified measures to expedite the unloading of some 240,000 sacks of Vietnamrice from two vessels that have been unable to dock because of the lack of…
UNLOADING of a shipment of 800,000 bags of rice from Vietnam has been delayed because of the lack of berthing space at the Cebu International Port (CIP). As of yesterday, National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Renan B.…
ONE serving of meat, one serving of rice, pancit noodles and two pieces of siomai dumplings. This selection of food was served to more than 2,000 police personnel assigned to secure the second round of the Asia-Pacific…
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