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                    [Title] => GMA names Yap to NFA post
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo has formally appointed Arthur Yap as the new administrator of the National Food Authority replacing Anthony Abad who resigned from the post recently.


Yap was president of the Philippine International Trading Corp. prior to his being named to his new post. His appointment papers were signed by President Arroyo last Sept. 24.


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                    [Title] => Tindang bigas ng 20 'Gloria Labandera' store nahuling ibinibenta ng congressman
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Ayon sa aking bubuwit, 89 days na lang at Pasko na.


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                    [Title] => Palay production seen to drop this year
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The latest rice and corn production survey of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) show that because 90 percent of the areas producing these crops experienced scant rainfall during the planting season, the projected output for the entire year and the third quarter went down.


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                    [Title] => Gov’t to import 800,000 MT rice
                    [Summary] => The government will import at least 800,000 metric tons (MT) of rice next year to blunt the possible harsh effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon.


Outgoing National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Anthony Abad said the rice imports are scheduled to arrive in the first quarter instead of the usual second quarter to make sure the government has adequate buffer stock to augment the shotfall in local rice supply.


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                    [Title] => Pagbibitiw ni Abad sa NFA tutoo na
                    [Summary] => Matapos na magkaroon ng kalituhan sa Malacañang hinggil sa pagbibitiw sa tungkulin ni National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Anthony Abad, kinumpirma kahapon ni Pangulong Arroyo ang pagbibitiw nito. 


Ayon kay Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, pinasalamatan ng Pangulo si Abad sa naging dedikasyon nito sa kanyang trabaho bilang NFA head.


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                    [Title] => NFA celebrates 30th year
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Sept. 26.


President Arroyo has been invited to grace the festivities which has for its theme "Food Security for a Strong Republic."


Highlights of the occasion include the holding of a food fair and exhibits, seminars dealing on the rice industry, program to be attended by ranking officials, stakeholder representatives and other leaders of the grains industry.


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                    [Title] => RP buys rice from Thailand, Vietnam
                    [Summary] => The Philippines, one of Asia’s largest rice buyers, said yesterday it bought 100,000 tons of the grain from Thailand and Vietnam and has sought tenders to import an additional 150,000 tons for buffer stocks.


Officials of state trading firm National Food Authority (NFA) told a news conference the government bought 50,000 tons of 25 percent broken rice from Thailand at $207 per ton, including cost and freight (C&F), and another 50,000 tons of the same grade of rice from Vietnam at $205.80 per ton C&F.


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                    [Title] => Rice imports start arriving
                    [Summary] => Rice imports have started arriving into the country as the off harvest season draws near.


National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Anthony Abad said the agency is closely monitoring the arrival of rice imports as he gave his assurance that the total contracted volume of 390,000 metric tons will arrive before the lean months.


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                    [Title] => Top government officials to open food expo
                    [Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, Sen. Jun Magsaysay, Undersecretaries Nelia Villafuerte, Reps. Harry Angping and Alfredo Maranon, Presidential advisers Cito Lorenzo, Ernie Ordonez and Lito Sarmiento; NFA Administrator Anthony Abad, PCA Administrator Danilo Coronacion, Quedan Guarantee Fund Board president Nelson Buenaflor and former food minister Jesus Tanchanco Sr., lead the guests in tomorrow’s opening day rites of the First Philippine Food Expo 2002 at the Megatrade Halls 1, 2 and 3 at the SM Megamall, in Mandaluyong City.


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                    [Title] => NFA blames Customs for loss of seized rice in Cebu
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) has blamed the Bureau of Customs for not immediately requesting it to store some 36,000 sacks of smuggled rice which the bureau’s agents confiscated in Cebu recently.


NFA Administrator Anthony Abad reported to Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, who also chairs the NFA Council, that the agency has at least seven warehouses in Cebu to store these stocks.


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ADMINISTRATOR ANTHONY ABAD

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The latest rice and corn production survey of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) show that because 90 percent of the areas producing these crops experienced scant rainfall during the planting season, the projected output for the entire year and the third quarter went down.


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Outgoing National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Anthony Abad said the rice imports are scheduled to arrive in the first quarter instead of the usual second quarter to make sure the government has adequate buffer stock to augment the shotfall in local rice supply.


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