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Senator Cynthia Villar stressed that the package of support for farmers included in the rice tariffication bill is government’s response to the expiration last June 30, 2017 of the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice importation under the agreement with the World Treaty Organization (WTO). Villar, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, said Senate […]
The rice tariffication bill, when signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, will greatly benefit not just consumers, but rice farmers as well. This was the assurance given by House Agriculture Committee chair and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose T. Panganiban, Jr., who on Monday spoke of the benefits of the measure after the bill hurdled the bicameral conference […]
House Appropriations Committee Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Wednesday welcomed moves by the National Food Authority (NFA) Council to improve its local palay procurement efforts, saying that its plans to provide incentives to rice farmers effectively raising the buying price of palay to P20 a kilo would allow it to purchase palay from […]
With Typhoon Mangkhut expected to bring heavy rains and winds as strong as 160 kph, House Appropriations Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” on Monday called on the National Food Authority (NFA) to intensify rice procurement operations so that it could buy palay from farmers before the supertyphoon hits the country. “The NFA has not had […]
Senator Cynthia Villar welcomed participants to the training program on mechanization in production of rice at the Villar Sipag Farm School in Bacoor, Cavite. Held in partnership with the Department of Agriculture Regional Office 4-A and the Philippine Center for Post-Harvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), the two-day seminar taught participants safety measures in farm operations […]