Avant Gardener Yvette Natalie Tan Many people think that farming is just planting seeds and harvesting crops. They don’t understand that like any business, it entails a whole production process, and that money may need to be spent in different areas along the way. Raf Dioniso of Make a Difference...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region IX has extended technical aid worth P685,000 to rice farmers in Zamboanga del Sur. (Photo from Department of Science and Technology Region IX) The DOST-IX reported that a rice harvester amounting to ₱685,000 was turned over to members of the...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Natalie Tan Just what exactly is needed to produce a grain of rice? Quite a lot of labor and capital. Despite rice being a staple of the Pinoy dining table, not many Filipinos understand how the country’s favorite grain goes from binhi (seed) to bigas (milled rice). When...
Senator Cynthia Villar on Monday, April 26, praised the reported achievements of government agencies in implementing the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), particularly the funds meant to aid local rice farmers amid the liberalized importation of the commodity. (MANILA BULLETIN File Photo/Jansen Romero)...
Wala Lang Hi from your usual writer Jaime C. Laya – This time Bambi Guevara goes into what we might classify as intermediate and advanced hiking. * * * * * * * * * * After a few one-day hikes to warm up, multi-day hikes raise the bar and will be immensely rewarding even if it means longer road...
Once vaccination is in full swing, we can finally have a taste of our 7,640-flavored country again, but keep pandemic protocols in place until further notice The health crisis has robbed us of everything we love, from the mere act of breathing to our very livelihoods, even the freedom to live full...
In response to the controversy, 10 inventive chefs turn the Filipino comfort dish into a sumptuous necessity PORRIDGE FOR THE SOUL Lugaw is plain rice porridge, but you can turn it into anything you can imagine “Is lugaw essential?” asked a barangay official of a delivery rider waiting outside...
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) has confirmed that there has been undervaluation of rice imports in the country and vowed to address the issue. (MANILA BULLETIN) A statement from the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) revealed that BoC Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero has already initiated to plug...
The Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) is still urging the Philippine government to resolve what they called as unabated undervaluation of rice imports, which already resulted in nearly P6 billion in losses in government revenues since 2019. FFF National Manager Raul Montemayor noted that the Bureau...
Revenues from rice tariffs increased by more than half in January amid higher imports and enhanced valuation system, the Department of Finance (DOF) said on Friday, March 5. In a report to submitted to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, the Bureau of Customs said that tariffs from rice...
As much as 446,858 metric tons (MT) of cheaper, imported rice had so far entered the country this year, data from the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) showed. Based on the latest data from BPI, as many as 372 Sanitary and phytosanitary import clearance (SPS-IC) were already used so far for this year....
Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez has raised the likelihood of allowing lower tariffs on rice from India as a way of minimizing tariff barriers for the Philippines very vital commodity. Lopez mentioned this during the Philippines Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (FICCI) and the...
