The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-I provided P425,000 worth of aid to Payas Rice Mill in La Union to purchase a rice huller machine that would boost its production and sales. DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña (PCOO/MANILA BULLETIN FILE) DOST Secretary Fortunato...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has targeted an unprecedented hybrid rice area of 1.2 to 1.3 million hectares for crop year 2022 after a lull in planting amid the pandemic. Frisco M. Malabanan, DA rice program consultant, said at least 700 hectares of hybrid rice are being readied for the bumper...
Farmers have asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) to immediately provide more large-capacity mechanical grain dryers to help them during this palay harvest season, which is facing the onset of La Nina. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said in a...
Talk has it that loyal Kapuso Jackie Rice will soon be a Kapamilya. Supposedly, the actress already cut a deal with ABS-CBN. Her first project for the network is the upcoming TV remake of "Darna." No. She is not replacing Jane de Leon. Rumor has it that she has been cast as Valentina, Darna's main...
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) has distributed farm machines worth P439.8 million in Leyte, benefitting 131 qualified farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs) from 38 municipalities and cities of the province. The P439.8-million worth of...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) received Thursday, Oct.21, 2,000 metric tons of rice donated by the Chinese government intended for those affected by disasters and the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic. DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista receives on...
Revenue collection from imported rice increased this year despite decline in the price of the staple food in the world market, the Department of Finance (DOF) reported Thursday, Oct. 21. Based on the Bureau of Customs report submitted to the DOF, the agency collected P14.3 billion in rice duties...
Local farmers will continue to suffer from low palay prices due to typhoons and continuous entry of cheaper, imported rice.
“Palay prices are expected to remain low in the coming weeks with the cumulative effects of typhoons and importation even during the harvest season,
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is now investigating fraudulent activities that have been taking place in the distribution of farm equipment funded by the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF). In a briefing, PHilMech Executive Director Baldwin...
Three years since the implementation of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech), the government agency tasked to mechanize the local rice sector, has only spent merely 6 percent of its total allocation under the Rice...
The Philippines and China are one in seeking to strengthen the more than four decades of bilateral ties between the two countries. DOST-PCAARRD Executive Director Reynaldo Ebora and Deputy Executive Director for Research and Development Feliciano Calora, Jr. during the Virtual Memorandum of...
An iron fortified rice processing facility has been set up in Maramag, Bukidnon, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said on Friday, Oct. 1. (PIXABY) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the DOST-X, DOST-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) in cooperation with...
