Benhur Abalos Jr. called for urgent amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) to empower the National Food Authority (NFA), citing the law’s negative impact on local farmers and its failure to ...

Under its mandate, the NFA is tasked to maintain sufficient rice buffer stocks to be sourced mainly from local farmers. The agency, for its part, said it is also mandated to keep and dispose of 99.9% ...

promoted hybrid rice technologies to improve rice production during a Farmers’ Field Day in Solana, Cagayan. Hector Tabbun, chief of the Research Division, said the project aimed to introduce and ...

But rice farmers here are fighting their own battle, struggling to compete with cheap imports. Miami rice is what the Haitians call imported American rice that has flooded their market since the ...

Segun Atho is the National Vice President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN). In this interview with Charles Okonji, the Lagos-based farmer who went into agriculture due to his inability ...

In January, the year ahead for Jim Hartman, a North Carolina farmer, was looking bright. He planned to replace his 40-year-old forklift, and to finish building a new packing and processing ...

A former House of Representatives member has called on former Interior secretary and senatorial candidate Benhur Abalos to sit down and discuss with farmers his proposed amendments to the Rice ...

The Trump administration has discussed providing financial aid for farmers who may be subject to retaliation by America’s trading partners. By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington Ahead of ...

Thus, the movement of rice to markets, and of consumer goods to the farmer, is slow and costly; and lack of consumer goods has caused many rice farmers to produce only subsistence crops. Throughout ...

Rice farmers in the North will be able to increase their production after receiving four rice harvesters as part of the government's ongoing support for the agricultural sector. The Minister for ...

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NIÑO, South Cotabato (MindaNews / 31 March) — Prescila Gomez checks her rice field in Barangay ... backup farm of MASIPAG in Nueva Ecija. Trial farm of MASIPAG members. Photo courtesy MASIPAG To ...