Malacañang has warned the public over looming fake news on the P20 per kilo of rice, saying that the selling of the cheaper rice has not yet started. P45 well-milled rice is being sold at the Kadiwa store in the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) in Manila on Aug. 1, 2024. ( Arnold Quizol | MB File...
Vice President Sara Duterte (PPAB) DAGUPAN CITY Pangasinan--Members of the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial ticket gave commonsensical--and at the same time savage--responses to Vice President Sara Duterte's criticism on...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left), Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (MANILA BULLETIN, Facebook) For economist-solon Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda, President Marcos' roll-out of P20-per-kilo rice was a bullseye...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (center) and members of the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate (Facebook) With the May 12 elections just around the corner, House Speaker Martin Romualdez noted that a "working...
President Marcos' move to fulfill his promise to lower the price of rice to as low as P20 per kilo, at least in the Visayas region, was not a political move, Malacañang said. The move was neither related to the recent drop in Marcos' approval, nor a campaign strategy for the administration...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Speaker’s office, Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez hailed President Marcos for delivering on his campaign promise of P20 per kilo rice just over...
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) delivered more than 30,000 machines to farmers, cooperatives, and local government units (LGUs) in 2024, as the agency moves to lower the cost of rice production. In its accomplishment report submitted to Agriculture...
The National Food Administration (NFA) said it has built up a buffer stock of 7.17 million 50-kilo bags of milled rice across its network of storage facilities, the agency’s highest inventory level since 2020. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that this is around 1.61...
(Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Senatorial candidate ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo is batting for the restoration of the National Food Authority’s (NFA) mandate to buy palay (unhusked rice) from local farmers and sell the...
Photo from Pasay BFP A 20-year-old man was hurt when a fire hit several houses in Pasay City on Holy Wednesday, April 16. Supt. Mariano Taguiam, Pasay City Bureau of Fire Marshall, said the victim, identified as alias “Vinz,” suffered multiple lacerations on his hand and was...
Former DA secretary Manny Piñol (left), Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (Facebook) It was during Manny Piñol's tenure as Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary in the previous Duterte administration that prices of rice--the Filipino staple...
The government has increased the maximum kilos of rice a household can buy from Kadiwa stores to 30 kilos, an Agriculture official said. P45 well-milled rice is being sold at the Kadiwa store in the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) in Manila on Aug. 1, 2024. (Arnold Quizol | MB File Photo) In a...
