Telangana’s rice exports have fallen 20-30 per cent in 2025 due to high procurement costs and collapsing domestic demand amid ...

A peasant group on Tuesday slammed the latest proposed scheme of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to temporarily halt rice ...

President Marcos has ordered the 60-day suspension of rice importation starting Sept. 1, Malacañang announced yesterday.

Debt as a Symptom of Corruption, Not a Cause of Development The Philippines’ ballooning debt—projected to reach ₱17.35 trillion by end-2025 and push the debt-to-GDP ratio to 62%—is often framed as a ...

THE Integrated Rural Development Foundation (IRDF) on Tuesday called on lawmakers to repeal the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) ...

AMID growing concerns on the drop in the farmgate price of palay (unhusked rice), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will study the Department of Agriculture (DA) proposal to raise rice tariffs and halt ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona) at the Batasang Pambansa in ...

This is Round Two.  Dispensing with the theatre and the billboard this time, President Trump once again hit a swathe of countries with substantial ...

Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has warned that the country’s rice farming sector faces collapse unless the Rice ...

The suspension of rice importation for 60 days, beginning September, is to protect Philippine farmers during this current ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a 60-day suspension of all rice imports starting September 1, 2025 to protect local ...

Local farmers already lost P54.5 billion in the first six months of 2025, the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) said as it asked the government to control rice imports, which are hurting local ...