THE Philippines has overtaken all other countries to become the world's top rice importer in 2024, an ominous milestone that ...

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 ...

AN agricultural policy paper released last week by one of the country's oldest rural development NGOs lays the blame for the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is seeking full rice self-sufficiency in four years even as the country faces a looming crisis on its staple commodity. In a statement yesterday, the ...

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 ...

Another rice crisis recently emerged as the cost of rice soared due to various reasons. ... Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:30 AM November 04, ... The DA and the Department of Trade and Industry can ...

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 ...

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 Marcos administration lifted a month-long rice price ceiling on Oct. 5 after his government set the maximum retail price of regular milled rice at 41 pesos ($0.72) per kilogram (2.2 pounds ...

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 ...

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.

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.