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Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara is urging government to ensure that support and benefits under the newly enacted rice tariffication law reach rice farmers and help them cope with the lifting of the quantitative restrictions on rice imports. “The government must ensure that support measures under the law will be fully realized for the benefit of […]
A measure that will allow unimpeded importation of rice, amending the Agricultural Tariffication Act of 1996 and replacing the quantitative restriction on rice imports, is now a President’s signature away from becoming law. The Senate transmitted to the Office of the President the harmonized version of Senate Bill 1998 and House Bill 7735, or an […]
House Committee on Agriculture chairman and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose Panganiban, Jr. expressed confidence on Monday that Congress will act quickly on the rice tariffication bill. President Rodrigo Duterte had certified its passage as urgent Wednesday last week. When certified as urgent, a bill need not undergo the three-day rule between the second and third reading […]
House Appropriations Committee Chair Davao City Rep. Karlo Nograles on Sunday said the decision of the Department of Agriculture(DA) to increase the buying price of clean and dry palay by P3 per kilo “is a welcome relief for farmers who are worried about the effects of the government’s decision lift the quantitative restriction (QR) for […]
The AGRI Party-list has welcomed Agriculture Secretary and new National Food Authority Council (NFA) Chairperson Emmanuel Piñol’s approval of the importation of a total of 1.75 million metric tons (MT) of rice for 2018 and 2019. The move, Piñol announced, was aimed at discouraging rice hoarders and taming rice prices, which remain high despite one […]