President Marcos has urged Congress to allow the National Food Authority (NFA) to import rice as doing so would lead to the stabilization of rice prices. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) Marcos said this as the government works to amend the Rice Tariffication Law...
The House plenary hall (Contributed photo) On just its third week in the legislative mill, the measure seeking to provide the public with cheaper rice by tweaking the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) has been approved on third and final...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero (Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez is looking forward to working with newly-installed Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero. "I would like to...
President Marcos believes that the government has already found the best solution to lower the price of rice in the market amid plans to certify as urgent the proposed amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL). President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) In an interview...
Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Majority Leader Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre is hoping that senators would empathize with the situation of hungry Filipinos and act on the proposed amendments...
The Department of Finance (DOF) will review the proposed amendment to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) to ensure that the debts from the National Food Authority (NFA) do not inflate. Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto said that the law is working, however, he noted that some tweaks should be done to...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure seeking to amend Republic Act (RA) No. 11203, or the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), in a bid to lower rice...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has lifted the preventive suspension order earlier issued against 72 National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse supervisors who were reportedly involved in the low-priced sale of rice buffer stocks without the conduct of public bidding and prior approval by the NFA...
Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga (Contributed photo) The proposed bill amending the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) is moving swiftly in the House of Representatives and is expected to be approved on third and final reading before...
(Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The effort to pass key amendments to Republic Act (RA) No.11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) will kick into high gear this week as the House of Representatives begins the plenary debates on 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...
Senator Imee Marcos (Senate PRIB) Senator Imee Marcos is batting for government-to-government importation of rice bypassing the National Food Authority (NFA) amid what she described as the current "rice emergency" that the country is...
