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 ...

Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief, Assistant Secretary Vigor Mendoza II, has ordered the agency’s executives to provide ...

Rice prices in the Philippines continued their downtrend in the first month of 2025, with the inflation rate for the grain ...

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

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I eat rice multiple days a week — and used to exclusively make it in a pot on the stove. It’s a deceptively easy task: Measure, rinse, add water, simmer, steam, and less than half an hour ...

Ferdinand Caraballe, Supervising Agriculturist of the Department of Agriculture (DA)-10, acknowledged the slower inflation in rice prices but expressed concerns about the long-term impact. “Although ...

THE Philippines and Finland on Thursday signed a joint declaration of intent to seal a bilateral labor agreement this year. “Safe, ethical, transparent, and sustainable recruitment will happen and ...

Philippines — The extraordinary increase in prices and glutted National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses may soon push the government to declare a food security emergency. The amended Rice ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Thursday said the price of its Rice-for-All 25 (RFA25) will drop from P40 to P38 per kilogram starting Friday. In a statement ...

{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.