Reducing the price of rice to P20 per kilo was one of the campaign promises Marcos made during the 2022 presidential race FILE PHOTO: A worker carries on his head a sack of rice
Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas – The Philippine Star Workers unload sacks of rice from a delivery truck along Dagupan Street in Tondo, Manila on January 22, 2024. MANILA,
By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS, GMA Integrated News Rice prices in the Philippines are expected to go down by as much as 20% in September due to an expected increase in production and
The government decided to propose that the National Food Authority (NFA) be given the right to import rice and to maintain a buffer stock to assure that the price of rice can be
MANILA — Rice prices in the Philippines are expected to decrease by 20 percent in September, Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said on Monday. “We expect rice prices to go down by
By Filane Mikee Cervantes (PNA file photo by Joan Bondoc) MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has urged Congress to pass the proposal to amend the Rice
(FILES) President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. tries his hand at operating a rice combine harvester, or RCH, during a ceremonial harvesting event and distribution of assistance
Grainy at the moment. While the National Food Authority officials work on sacking the rice sale scam, probe details of which remain undisclosed, workers keep the flow going,
BEING the staple food of most Filipinos, rice is the country’s most important crop. Yet our leaders, from the President to the lawmakers in Congress, seemed clueless on what