THERE have been continuing commentaries on how bad our agricultural sector, particularly rice farming, has been for a long time now. Sadly, there appears to be no clear dramatic improvement in sight.
Food production is subordinated to the profit interests of a tiny layer of wealthy landlords and ruling elites while the ...
Bringing rice grains from farms to plate in the country remains an expensive process ... Orly Manuntag, spokesperson for the Grain Retailers Confederation of the Philippines and co-founder of ...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday disclosed plans with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to ...
A young person from Whitehorse will be on Canada's Environment and Climate Change Youth Council for the next two years. Pearl ...
MANILA, Philippines – The country’s rice imports are expected to decline ... harvest season is ongoing to prevent depressing the farm-gate price of palay, which would severely affect farmers ...
The country’s paddy rice output will recover this year on the back of improved weather conditions and the extended rice competitiveness program, according to a research firm. BMI, a unit of Fitch ...
In his younger years, Jose Apollo Pacamalan worked as a market laborer, a farmer, and a copra gatherer just to put himself ...
Despite its ancient history in Asia, the first rice was grown in Australia in 1906 after Chinese gold prospectors arrived with the first rice seeds in 1850. Despite its ancient history in Asia ...
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Toward rice sufficiency
RICE is a central crop in the Filipino table and a backbone of agricultural employment in the Philippines. The ongoing debate ...