Businesses offering unlimited rice were urged to be stricter in imposing sanctions over rice wastage. Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) officials made the call during a Palace briefing to launch the 2023 National Rice Awareness Month on Thursday, Nov. 9....
(Keith Bacongco/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has highlighted the advantages that Filipino farmers would enjoy following Malacañang's directive for the Department of Agriculture (DA) to tap excess rice competitiveness enhancement...
A group of teachers expressed their concerns regarding the one-time rice assistance to be provided to government employees for fiscal year 2022. Public school teachers (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) The Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC) in a statement issued on Monday, Oct. 9,...
BACOLOD CITY – The provincial government has partnered once anew with the Federation of Irrigators Association of Central Negros-Bago River Irrigation System (FIACN-BRIS) to provide affordable rice to the people of Negros Occidental. PEOPLE purchase P25 per kilo rice in a ‘Bigasan ng...
With its “economies of scale” now in place, an official of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said that the administration of President Marcos is treading the right path in providing affordable rice in the market. (File Photo/MANILA BULLETIN) Speaking in a Palace briefing,...
Farmers' group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday, Nov. 7 responded to the recent statement of the newly assigned Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Laurel Jr. on the "inability" of the country to lower down prices of rice to P20 per kilogram in 2023. (Noel...
CEBU CITY – The provincial government led the kickoff of National Rice Awareness Month (NRAM) in Bohol on Monday, November 6, . Farmers, youth sector representatives, agricultural extension workers, municipal agriculturists, rice technicians, agriculture line agencies, and private seed companies...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez speaks to the crowd in Biñan City, Laguna during the launch of the CARD program on Nov. 5, 2023. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez led on Sunday, Nov. 5 the launch of the Cash and Rice Distribution (CARD)...
SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (leftmos)(Facebook) SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta was able to sell good quality rice at just P35 per kilo to lucky consumers in Capas, Tarlac earlier this month. A Facebook post from Marcoleta last Oct. 16 boasted that...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) distribution of financial assistance for small rice retailers and sari-sari store owners has ended on Oct. 20. “A total of 26,266 micro-retailers and sari-sari store owners benefitted from the SLP (Sustainable Livelihood Program) receiving...
By Henrylito D. Tacio American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of...
The Indian government has awarded to the Philippines its “highest allocation of rice export,” its embassy in Manila said on Wednesday, Oct. 18. (Photo from Indian Ambassador Shambhu Kumaran's X page) In an email to the Manila Bulletin, Indian Embassy’s Press, Information and Culture (PIC)...
