Filipinos are consuming rice faster than the country can grow it, with a study from Ateneo de Manila University warning that stagnant farm yields and shrinking farmland are widening the nation’s rice deficit despite years of government interventions. The Philippines consumed 2.3 million metric...
The Philippines is expected to see a decline in rice imports in the upcoming marketing year due to a projected increase in rice production, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In a report dated March 28, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) in Manila...
President Marcos has inspected the P67.48-million multi-stage rice processing complex project in Barangay Ipil, Echague, Isabela which was inaugurated last year. Rice Processing System II in Isabela (RTVM) The project, known as the Rice Processing System II, is expected to benefit thousands of...
Following a sharp decline in palay production last year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is optimistic that the Philippines will achieve a record-high harvest in 2025. In a statement on Monday, Jan. 20, DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel said this forecast is credited to the directive of...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the estimated palay production may decline in the third quarter, while corn output is expected to increase. Based on the PSA’s latest production estimates for the July to September 2024 quarter palay production is expected to fall by 12 percent to...
TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government has partnered with TAO Corp. to focus on a large-scale project to increase rice production in Northern Samar province. TAO Corp. has identified 500 hectares of potential land for rice production, particularly in the municipalities of Laoang,...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is expecting around 3.64 million metric tons of rice inventory for this year, which it said, is equivalent to 93 days of national consumption. The figure is almost 100 percent higher than the rice inventory recorded in December last year at only 1.9 million metric...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that rice and corn production is expected to decrease in the third quarter of this year. As of May, palay or rice production is estimated to drop by 8.4 percent to 3.89 million metric tons between April and June from 4.25 million MT in the same...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it is committed to its goal of producing 20.44 million metric tons of palay this year despite the impact of El Nino. In a statement, Agriculture Undersecretary Chris Morales said that they are optimistic about achieving this target, especially with the...
As palay production declined by 0.3 percent in the first three months of this year, an economist from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) shared how technological advances can procure a steady and high rice output for the future. In recent data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the...
In pursuance of solar-powered irrigation, the Department of Agriculture (DA) believes that diversifying irrigation other than rice use would increase the take-home pay of farmers. During a press briefing with the delegates of the DA, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the Department of...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) A historic rice harvest. That's how House Speaker Martin Romualdez described the country’s 20-million metric ton (MT) rice production for 2023, which was a 1.5 percent increase from the previous...
