Latest in National Food AuthorityThe National Food Authority (NFA) can now buy freshly harvested or wet palay for the first time, freeing farmers from having to sell cheaply to traders when they need to move their grain quickly after harvest, NFA Administrator Larry Lacson said Saturday. Lacson made the disclosure in an interview…
The government is exploring new interventions to bring down rice prices after year-on-year rice inflation climbed to 15.6% in May, with bio-fertilizers and the expansion of Kadiwa centers among the measures being considered, a senior Palace official said Saturday. Undersecretary Erwin Sta. Ana of…
While the government celebrates a deal securing 1.5 million metric tons of rice from Vietnam, a veteran Davao journalist says the policy behind it is quietly destroying the livelihoods of the very farmers the country depends on. Serafin “Jun” Ledesma Jr., speaking on DZRH’s Special on Saturday on…
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