To ensure that government support reaches genuine farmers and not middlemen, the National Food Authority has issued stricter ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) said it will buy palay (unmilled rice) only from registered farmers to cut traders out of the palay procurement process. Under the new rules, only verified farmers ...

The country’s palay harvest in the second quarter may hit a record 4.36 million metric tons, lifting total output in the first half to over nine million MT, the Philippine Statistics Authority ...

Through the center, farmers can sell their palay directly to the provincial government at higher prices, helping them recover production costs and increase income. “Many of our farmers are at the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A group of rural workers’ advocates urged the Philippine government to impose a floor price for palay (unmilled rice) to arrest the decline in retail prices of the staple ...

The DA on Monday said that they have to validate reports from the group that three farmers took their own lives due to low palay farmgate prices and over-importation of rice. “It is sad that the ...

NFA Adminstrator Larry Lacson is appealing to farmers to sell their palay to the agency to avail of a better price for their crops. For clean and dry palay, the NFA is buying these at 24 pesos per ...

The NFA has used up its P8 billion carry over funding for palay procurement from last year. NFA acting Administrator Larry R. Lacson said the NFA plans to procure about 7.2 million 50-kilo bags of ...

DRONE TECHNOLOGY. The Department of Agriculture (DA) displays drones which may be utilized for planting of palay during the wet cropping season, during the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon briefing on Monday ...

According to the DA, the NFA must maintain a buffer quantity equal to 9 days' worth of national rice consumption. At the moment, the NFA can dry up to 31,000 metric tons but can only purchase around ...