The donation, equivalent to 100,000 sacks of rice weighing 40 kilograms each, was shipped in two batches from South Korea to the Philippines in December. The final shipment arrived on January 20.

The National Food Authority (NFA) regional office here is preparing the release of 71,000 bags of rice to interested local ...

Various government interventions under President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. have been crucial in the gradual stabilization of “extraordinary” spikes in rice prices in the country, the Department of ...

The Philippines yesterday declared a food security emergency in order to bring down the price of rice, which officials said ...

South Korea has donated 4,000 metric tons (MT) of rice to families in regions affected by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine ...

The National Bureau of Investigation arrested three Vietnamese for selling illegal drugs hidden inside a bag of rice during a drug sting in Pasay City. According to a report, the agency’s Organized ...

The Department of Agriculture has capped imported rice at P58 per kilo in Metro Manila markets to help bring down prices. But ...

IN 1984, the government imported around 160,000 metric tons (MT) of rice. In the following years ... forecasting model on agricultural exports and imports, estimates that the Philippines will import ...

Secretary Rex Gatchalian thanked the government of the Republic of Korea for their donation of 4,000 metric tons (MT) of rice for distribution to regions severely-hit by Severe ...

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (PIA) — The low rice prices in markets during the holiday season pushed inflation to slower movement in Palawan and Puerto Princesa, the Philippine Statistics ... in ...

Authorities in this city intercepted a wing van truck and confiscated the contraband cigarettes loaded on it. The operation ...

{A worker carries on his head a sack of rice inside a government rice warehouse National Food Authority in Quezon city, Metro Manila in Philippines, August 9, 2018. Picture taken August 9, 2018.