Rice farmers may soon be able to sell their newly harvested palay at a higher price. National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Larry Lacson said Thursday that the agency is verifying reports about ...

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 ...

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 ...

The NFA rice release aims to help bring down market prices through the availability of cheaper rice; and free up NFA warehouse spaces for palay procurement from local farmers. The Department of ...

A rice field affected by the dry spell brought by El Niño in southern Negros Occidental in this undated photo. The province’s palay production decreased by 11.97 percent in 2024 due to El Niño, the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Wednesday announced the allocation of PHP18 million worth of fisheries livelihood projects for the province of Aurora in 2025. In a speech ...

MANILA, Philippines – The rice stock inventory of the National Food Authority (NFA) rose by 485.1 percent in January compared to the same period last year, recent Philippine Statistics Authority ...

AVOFA has 81 members, 62 percent of whom are women. The Tampalon Rainfed Upland Farmers Association of Kabankalan City, meanwhile, is engaged in palay (unhusked rice) buying and rice retailing. Among ...

Adding six days to the buffer stock will require the NFA to procure about 300,000 MT of palay or unmilled rice from local farmers, with an estimated price of P23 per kilo. “We were initially allocated ...

The NFA would have a buying price for palay, or unmilled rice, ranging from P21 to P23 per kilo for clean and dry, according to the Agriculture department chief. The NFA would set a selling price of ...