Rice prices in the Philippines continued its downtrend in the first month of 2025, with the inflation rate for the grain staple contracting for the first time in nearly four years, amid a trend of ...

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) has declared a food security emergency for rice in response to a sharp ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has set the price of National Food Authority (NFA) rice at P35 per kilo, lower than the initial estimate of P38 per kilo, as part of government’s response to the ...

Losses of up to P2.25 billion will be absorbed by the government due to the sale of subsidized rice in the market during the ...

Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices ...

The price of rice, our staple food — referring specifically to us Filipinos — has become increasingly unaffordable for those in the marginalized sector, despite ...

Following its declaration of a food security emergency, the Department of Agriculture (DA) aims to further lower rice retail ...

THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) said it has entered into a partnership with a Japanese agriculture technology firm to reduce. In a statement, PhilRice said that it signed a ...

The Philippines’ inflation settled at 2.9 percent in January 2025, within the government’s target range of 2 percent to 4 ...

Inflation settled at 2.9 percent in January, unchanged from December, after a negative rice price growth offset the increase ...

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De Mesa said on Tuesday that the emergency measure will cease once price levels return “close” to that of pre-July 2023 ...