ILOILO CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA) urged rice farmers in the Visayas to explore corn production to beef up the country’s needed supply. “We are looking into corn after rice planting,” said Milo delos Reyes, director of the DA-National Corn Program. “It means, one crop is...
The country’s rice inventory jumped by 14 percent to over two million metric tons (MT) in May, aligning with the government’s ongoing efforts to ensure food sufficiency and stabilize prices. In its latest report, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said rice stocks stood at 2.37 million...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) Albay 2nd district Rep Joey Salceda is pushing the economic managers of the Marcos administration to keep corn prices in check, even as the inflation rate for August eased to 3.3 percent. Salceda, an economist, said...
(Unsplash) Albay 2nd district Rep Joey Salceda has always blamed rice prices for past instances of quickened inflation; that's not the case anymore. "It’s no longer rice, rice, rice. It’s corn," the economist-solon said in a...
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 Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported a decrease in the country's total rice stock inventory for March, coinciding with the onset of the El Niño peak. The overall rice inventory declined by three percent to 1.37 million metric tons as of March 1, down from 1.41 million metric tons...
The country's production of unmilled rice, or palay, is projected to increase in the last quarter of the year, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. In a report on Thursday, Dec. 21, the PSA said the palay output from October to December may increase by 1.3 percent to...
The country’s rice production in the third quarter may experience a slight increase compared to the same period last year. In a report, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) settled the rice output from July to September at 3.8 million metric tons as of Sept. 1. This reflected an increase of...
The onslaught of Super Typhoon “Egay” (international name: Doksuri) has wiped out almost P2 billion worth of agricultural goods, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday, Aug. 1. (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office) Assistant Secretary for Operations Arnel de Mesa gave...
A collaborative research on corn and onion using satellites is set to commence in 2023, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) revealed on Thursday, May 11. (Unsplash) In a statement on Thursday, scientists from PhilSA said they are working with the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricultural...
(icono/Pexels) Genetically modified (GM) crops or genetically modified organisms (GMO) have been developed and grown since the 1990s. They are created through the process of genetic engineering, where the DNA of an organism is modified to produce desirable traits. GM crops are created to increase...
