The Department of Agriculture (DA) has faced delays in paying suppliers and merchants in Ilocos region that participated in the government’s voucher system, which provided fertilizer subsidy to rice farmers. A statement from the DA revealed that as much as P100-million worth of fertilizer...
Anne Rice, the author responsible for reinventing gothic fiction and the vampire genre, died Dec. 11 from complications of a stroke. The author’s death was announced by her son, Christopher Rice, through the former’s social media. “She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her...
The book was even adapted to film Christopher Rice posted on behalf of his mother Anne Rice on Facebook that the 80-year-old author has passed away on December 11, Saturday. Anne Rice was considered one of the bestselling authors who focused stories about vampires and other entities. Anne Rice...
The country’s rice imports will end up higher than earlier expected at 2.6 million metric tons (MT), making the country still one of the top rice importers in the world. Based on the latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), the...
The Department of Science and Technology–Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) has provided more than 55,000 packs of the enhanced nutribun squash variant and rice-mongo crunchies to more than 3,000 public elementary school students in Quezon province. Rice-Mango Crunchies...
Marc Pingris is expected to take the leadership role when he makes his basketball comeback with Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards in the Chooks-To-Go Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Invitational which is set to fire off on Dec. 11 at the Mall of Asia Arena. Marc Pingris (PBA Photo) Pingris,...
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) has joined the Department of Agriculture (DA) in the distribution of cash grants to Nueva Ecija rice farmers under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmer Financial Assistance (RCEF-RFFA). The RCEF-RFFA program aims to provide unconditional...
San Juan Knights and Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards are set for an early clash in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Invitational after the squads were drawn together in Group C during a ceremony held at the Crowne Plaza in Ortigas on Friday, Nov. 26. Photo from MPBL Nueva Ecija, which...
The government will distribute direct cash assistance of P5,000 to as many as 59,125 farmers in Nueva Ecija to be funded from the excess rice import tariff collection under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF). The Department of Agriculture (DA) formally launched this week RCEF’s Rice...
The Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute’s (DOST-ITDI) Chemicals and Energy Division (CED) won in the 2021 Regional Invention Contest and Exhibits in the National Capital Region (RICE-NCR) UNLAD category. (DOST-ITDI Facebook page ) The DOST-ITDI’s CED...
The National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST PHL), the country’s premier recognition and advisory body on science and technology (S&T), vouched for the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) such as BT eggplant and Golden Rice. (NAST PHL Facebook page) The NAST...
The Japanese government will provide food aid to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), benefiting thousands of fishing and farming households in the region. FOOD AID-- Japanese Ambassador Koshikawa Kazuhiko and World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director of...
