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...
Representative Wallace Chow of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines (TECO) underscored Taiwan’s unwavering support for the Filipino people during the turnover ceremony of 500 metric tons of rice donated by Taiwan to aid communities affected by recent natural disasters in the...
Navotas lone district Rep. Toby Tiangco Navotas lone district Rep. Toby Tiangco lauded the Department of Agriculture (DA) for its timely move of expanding its Rice for All program during the holiday season. Tiangco said this will allow more...
Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo has debunked the Department of Agriculture's (DA) claim that the agency is powerless to stop the soaring prices of...
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...
The Philippines, the world's No. 1 rice importer, would buy an even bigger volume during the current marketing year (MY) after a string of strong typhoons battered farms and slashed harvests, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service's...
Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-jay" Suarez (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) A serious omission by the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) caused House Deputy Speaker Quezon 2nd district Rep. David...
(Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Expect prices of rice to drop this coming 2025. Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Lray Villafuerte gave this fearless forecast as he hailed President Marcos for signing into law Republic Act (RA) No. 12078 or...
President Marcos signed into law on Monday, Dec. 9, the law amending the Agricultural Tariffication Act (ATA) to make the country’s rice industry more competitive. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. speaks during the signing of the Agricultural Tariffication Act (ATA) in Malacañan Palace on...
(File photo) The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it is mulling to sell P40 per kilo of rice across the country through the “Rice-for-All” program even as it assured that the affordable price of the commodity will still provide decent income for farmers. DA Assistant Secretary Genevieve...
ACEN Corporation's retail electricity unit has partnered with low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific to integrate renewable energy (RE) into its key facilities. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Friday, December 6, the firm said that ACEN Renewable Energy Solutions (ACEN RES) has begun 100...
(MANILA BULLETIN) President Marcos’ campaign promise to bring rice prices down to P20 per kilo has been given new life thanks to the House Murang Pagkain Super-committee's plan to pursue it. This was according to the super-panel’s overall...
