House Speaker Martin Romualdez (PPAB) Alarmed by the prevailing high price of rice, Speaker Martin Romualdez has told profiteers and price manipulators to clean up their act, or else face the wrath of the House of Representatives. “Sa...
Rice prices from earlier this year (MANILA BULLETIN) The quinta-committee (quinta-comm) of the House of Representatives has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the role of middlemen in the alleged manipulation...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) The House of Representatives, through the vaunted quinta-commiittee (quinta-comm), won't hold treat anyone as sacred cows in its bid to stop the practice of price manipulation of basic goods....
Rice prices from earlier this year. (MANILA BULLETIN) President Marcos' allies in the in the House of Representatives are still not giving up on the Chief Executive's dream of achieving P20 per kilo rice. This, after Albay 2nd...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has formed the quinta-committee (quinta-comm), which is tasked to investigate the interdependent issues of smuggling and price manipulation of basic goods and...
Year-Ender Agriculture Secretary William Dar (MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines' agriculture sector has survived a volcano eruption that blanketed tons of farm yield with ashes and sustained production within three quarters into the pandemic, but it only took three typhoons to expose its...
More than a week since Typhoon Ulysses, the deadliest typhoon to hit the Philippines so far for this year, made landfall in Quezon province, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said it had so far distributed P1.43 billion worth of farm and fishery inputs, farm machinery, livelihood projects, and...
Fishermen in Bicol region, which was badly hit by Ulysses and Rolly, are worried that if they won’t be able to recover from the recent typhoons fast enough and fix their boats, they will stay hungry until February next year. Lagonoy Gulf Integrated Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management...
Typhoon Ulysses has already incurred nearly P4 billion worth of damage to the country’s agriculture sector, with rice as the most affected crop. Data from the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) showed that as of November 18, the damage and losses that...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will make sure that the price freeze on some agricultural and fishery commodities is “strictly” observed in Luzon amid the declaration of state calamity in the region, which was badly battered by a series of typhoons. As this happens, the agency has also...
Quinta and Rolly's damage to agri sector now at P9B Rescuers evacuate residents from their flooded homes after Typhoon Vamco hit, in Marikina City, suburban Manila on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) Thousands of farmers and fishermen in Quezon province and Bicol region are reeling...
The combined damage of Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly to the agriculture sector rose to nearly P8 billion, affecting 89,259 farmers and fisherfolk and 162,693 hectares of agricultural areas. The latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
