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Senator Cynthia Villar led the opening of the training course on rice farm mechanization and inbred and rice seeds production at the Villar SIPAG Farm School in Bacoor, Cavite. Villar, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, said training the farmers how to mechanize farming practices and to produce certified inbred seeds will address […]
The implementation of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) or Rice Fund would provide farmers with the needed compensation for the projected reduction or loss of farm income following the proposed rice tariffication. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said the proposed P10 billion RCEF “is very critical to achieve growth in agriculture.” As such, Piñol said […]
Traders caught selling rice at prices higher than the government’s suggested retail price (SRP) can lose their license, face jail time, and pay a fine of up to P1 million, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol warns. Government will start imposing the penalties on violators once the guidelines take effect, Piñol said during the launch of the […]
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 […]
With government set to impose suggested retail prices for rice and chicken soon, Senate Trade and Commerce Committee Chair Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III is urging authorities to come down hard on predatory merchants who will continue to sell overpriced goods. The National Food Authority (NFA) Council, along with the departments of agriculture, trade and industry, […]
Senate Trade and Commerce Committee Chairperson Sen. Koko Pimentel III on Tuesday urged retiring Army Chief and incoming National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Lt. Gen. Rolando Bautista to work closely with the government’s economic managers to stabilize rice prices and address problems with supplies of affordable NFA rice. Pimentel said the long queues for NFA […]
House Agriculture Committee chair and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose Panganiban, Jr. called on the National Food Authority (NFA) and the country’s economic managers to reevaluate whether the amount of rice approved for importation early next year will be enough to cover the losses caused by Typhoon “Ompong.” The country had planned to import an additional 383,500 […]
With the National Food Authority (NFA) Council approving the importation of 250,000 metric tons of rice via open tender, House Appropriations Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Thursday urged the NFA management to ensure that the imported stocks would be distributed properly to prevent problems that have plagued rice stocks that were previously imported […]
With the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) recently revealing that inflation has hit 6.4 percent this August, House Appropriations Committee Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Wednesday urged members of the National Food Authority (NFA) Council and NFA management led by NFA Administrator Jason Aquino to “set aside their differences, end the finger-pointing, and […]
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 […]