Rice importation was not the reason behind the low price of palay in Cagayan, but the local traders, Malacañang said. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said that according to Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, the low price of palay...
Following decision to raise the palay buying price last April, the National Food Authority (NFA) said it was able to boost the quantity of milled rice by 14.6 percent compared to last year’s data. In a recent NFA council meeting, over 111,720 metric tons have been raised since the middle of May,...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the volume of palay or rice production increased by five percent to 5.23 million metric tons in the first three months of the year. The PSA report also showed that the farmgate price of palay was observed at P24.06 per kilogram, up by 6.7...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) recently announced price adjustment for palay to boost farmer competitiveness. Agriculture Assistant Secretary and Spokesperson Arnel de Mesa said on Thursday, April 11, that the new buying price will range from P23 to...
The farmgate prices of unmilled rice or palay averaged P21.96 per kilo in November, an increase of 26.6 percent from P17.35 per kilo in the same month a year ago. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said in a report that all regions registered year-on-year growth rates in average farmgate...
The farmgate price of palay or rice per kilogram swelled in November this year, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. Based on the PSA data, the average farmgate price of palay increased to 26.6 percent during the month. This translates to P21.96 per kilogram of palay, which...
President Marcos announced that the National Food Authority (NFA) Council had set a new price range for buying palay in response to the changing production and market conditions. File photo Marcos said this following his meeting with the NFA Council, which he heads, on Monday, Sept. 18. In a video...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is coming up with ways on how to help rice farmers cope with the rising cost of fertilizer in the Philippines – one of which is to possibly encourage farmers’ cooperatives to import fertilizers directly. In a briefing, Agriculture Underscretary Leocadio...
Local farmers will continue to suffer from low palay prices due to typhoons and continuous entry of cheaper, imported rice.
“Palay prices are expected to remain low in the coming weeks with the cumulative effects of typhoons and importation even during the harvest season,
The Philippines is seen importing more rice in the coming months amid expectations of improving economic conditions despite the prolonged pandemic. 34306 In the updated forecast of US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) here in Manila (Post), the Philippines rice...
Palay prices in some parts of the country have dipped below the production cost, but the worst is yet to come for rice farmers. Based on the initial survey by Federation of Free Farmers (FFF), palay prices in some parts of the country, including Pangasinan, Tarlac, Mindoro Occidental, Negros...
The harvest season for rice is over, but palay prices are still falling, a data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. During the fourth week of October, the average farmgate price of palay fell by 0.4 percent to P15.36 per kilogram (/kg), compared to its level of P15.42/kg in...
