Coconut farmers are coming up with a position paper that will formally ask President Rodrigo Duterte to veto Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund or the Coco Levy Act, which will pave the way for the release of the P100-billion Coco Levy Fund. (MB FILE, Keith Bacongco) Pambansang Kaisahan ng...
The decision of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to extend the validity of issued sanitary and phytosanitary import clearance (SPS-IC) for rice imports is feared to bring down palay prices during the next harvest season. Because of this, the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) is now asking...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it’s only a matter of time before the majority of the country's farmers bid farewell to farming due to old age, and that the agriculture sector will soon be taken over by millennials. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said since the average age of...
Even if a group of farmers in the Philippines said it may take a while for them to recover from Quinta, Rolly, and Ulysses, a foreign agency is convinced that these typhoons that struck the country last month will not have a significant impact on next year’s production. “The recent...
Palay prices continued to go down, even dipping to as low as P11 per kilogram (/kg) as farmers approach the tail-end of the harvest season with a series of strong typhoons. Latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that the average farm-gate price of palay continued its...
The one-time financial assistance that the Senate directed the Department of Agriculture (DA) to provide to rice farmers amid the declining prices of palay would not be enough, a group of rice farmers said. (MB file, Keith Bacongco) Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) National Manager Raul Montemayor...
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) was told to speed up its audit of rice import transactions in 2019, as well as the collection of unpaid tariffs and penalties from erring importers, so it could look into more recent cases of undervaluation in rice importation. This was after the agency reported that it...
As the prices of palay sank to as low as P12 per kilogram (/kg) in some areas, Senator Risa Hontiveros agreed there is a need to amend the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) and promised to convince the law's author and fellow senator, Cynthia Villar, about it....
