Last week Malacañang announced that the National Food Authority wanted to import 330,000 metric tons of rice under a government-to-government arrangement, through the Office of the President or ...

The Philippine government has announced it will hand out 12.7bn pesos of financial aid to about 2.3mn rice farmers, to help them deal with the effects of the El Niño weather pattern and rising ...

Surging rice prices in the Philippines could be a warning sign for other major importers of the food staple as the fallout from India’s export restrictions continues to reverberate across Asia ...

The Philippines became the world’s top rice importer in 2024, with imports hitting a record 4.7 million metric tons. In March last year, the annual rate of increase in rice prices hit a 15-year ...

IN 1984, the government imported around 160,000 metric tons (MT) of rice. In the following years, this rose to more than 200,000 MT and reached almost 300,000 MT during the fateful year when the ...

Typhoon-hit Philippines faces rice crisis, more inflation pain as crops perish. The onslaught from six storms caused at least US$131 million of crop losses, with rice bearing the brunt of the damage.

The paper proposes replacing the RTL with the Rice Industry Sustainable Development Act, which is a sound suggestion. Other recommendations made by the IRDF paper are a bit more problematic, ...

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Agriculture ministers of Vietnam and the Philippines have agreed to establish a rice industry alliance between the two countries and upgrade the trade relationship to an ...

Rice inflation in the Southeast Asian nation increased at the fastest pace in almost five years in August, reviving memories of a 2018 shock that led to the end of a two-decade-old limit on imports.

Addressing challenges that the Philippines’ agriculture industry is facing, including low productivity and scattered production, which are weighing on food security, Francisco asked Vietnam to ...