There is an opportunity for farmers to earn more if they can sell palay or unhusked rice directly to the National Food Authority (NFA). NFA Adminstrator Larry Lacson is appealing to farmers to sell ...

Newly delivered rice from Regions 2 and 3 is stored at a National Food Authority warehouse in Valenzuela on Monday, January 20, 2025. The National Food Authority (NFA) urged farmers to invest more ...

MANILA, Philippines — With the palay harvest season approaching amid the dry season, the Department of Agriculture (DA) and National Food Authority (NFA) were urged to step up monitoring of ...

Farmers in Mangaldan, Pangasinan are delaying the sale of their newly harvested palay as prices remain low, dropping to P17.50 per kilo compared to the P27 to P28 per kilo last year. Eddie Mayugba, a ...

PHOTO: LEILANI CHAVEZ FOR PCIJ SAN JOSE CITY — Rice miller Marivic Violago-Belen was on the stairs of her family’s home in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija when she closed a palay deal worth hundreds of ...

FARMERS should take advantage of current hot and dry weather to dry their palay (unmilled rice) harvests, the National Food Authority (NFA) said, as this would increase profits and also contribute to ...

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO (UPDATED) — Thousands of sacks of palay have been piled up and left unprocessed into rice in the warehouses of the National Food Authority (NFA) in San Jose, Occidental ...

(PNA photo by Ben Briones) MANILA – The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday said the approved additional PHP10 billion is crucial for the rehabilitation of the National Food Authority (NFA) ...

National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro are reportedly holding hundreds of thousands of sacks of unmilled palay, some of which have been stored for up to two years, ...

The sharp decline in palay (unmilled rice) prices across the country, particularly during the dry-season harvest, is a result of the government’s policy of unlimited rice importation and tariff cuts ...