The price of rice, our staple food — referring specifically to us Filipinos — has become increasingly unaffordable for those in the marginalized sector, despite ...

Rice prices in the Philippines continued its downtrend in the first month of 2025, with the inflation rate for the grain staple contracting for the first time in nearly four years, amid a trend of ...

Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices ...

Inflation settled at 2.9 percent in January, unchanged from December, after a negative rice price growth offset the increase ...

De Mesa said on Tuesday that the emergency measure will cease once price levels return “close” to that of pre-July 2023 ...

Losses of up to P2.25 billion will be absorbed by the government due to the sale of subsidized rice in the market during the ...

Following its declaration of a food security emergency, the Department of Agriculture (DA) aims to further lower rice retail ...

In the mid-1980s, I lived in the Republic of the Philippines and there I learned how to make the Filipino national dish, ...

Magna Kusina, located on the happening corner of SE 26th Avenue and Clinton Street, specializes in Filipino comfort food and ...

Despite efforts to liberalise rice imports and reduce tariffs, the agriculture department said, the domestic market has been ...

Expensive tomatoes and pork pushed the rate of increase in prices of basic goods and services to 2.9 percent in January, the ...