The government will raise import duties by five percentage points for every 5 per cent decline in world rice prices. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Policy failures and under-investment among factors for exacerbating country's import reliance to the detriment of the local farming industry, report says The Philippines' rice industry is in danger of ...

Just a grain away, Philippines wins silver in World’s Best Rice award. (Photo by Department of Agriculture) The Philippines’ ...

RICE production in the Philippines has largely stagnated since 2017, even as consumption continues to rise, leaving the country increasingly dependent on imports, according to a study by the Ateneo de ...

The world's rice landscape is shifting dramatically. 1 million metric tons projected for 2023-2024, representing one of the ...

A farmer harvests rice by a paddy field outside Hanoi, Vietnam on June 10, 2019. Vietnam’s rice exporters have raised concern over the impact of the Philippines’ ban on rice imports and urged their ...

The Philippines, one of the world's biggest importers of rice, is taking steps to temporarily limit imports of the grain from Vietnam amid a big harvest at home, three rice traders and an agricultural ...

In April, the Philippines’ Supreme Court heeded farmers’ and activists’ calls to look into the safety promise of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain created to tackle the vitamin A deficiency ...

Every harvest and milling season, rice straws—or dayami—are often discarded as waste in agricultural fields due to the lack of economic and technical means to process them. Some farmers resort to ...

BANAUE, Philippines (Reuters) - As the Philippines grapples with its worst food crisis in years, many farmers in its cradle of rice cultivation are abandoning farming for more lucrative trades. Sign ...

MANILA, Philippines, November 14, 2013 (ENS) – Amidst the deaths and devastation wrought by Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan that lashed the Philippines last weekend, the island nation has caught a ...