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The government wants to slowly wean rice farmers away from the price support provided by the National Food Authority (NFA), but no drastic changes to the subsidies provided by the state-run food agency would be immediately implemented, said Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization Francis Pangilinan yesterday.


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I despair when I read the 1001 things from graft to sheer ignorance to human rights violation in this administration. Is there still a chance for Filipinos to achieve their potential as our heroic forefathers envisioned?


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Good and bad news

By Cherry Piquero Ballescas | October 30, 2014 - 12:00am
The latest gender equality report of the World Economic Forum showed the Philippines in 9th place among the top 10 nations. While so much remain to be done to improve the lot of our women and men in our country and...
Freeman Opinion
fbtw
Review of NFA support price set

Review of NFA support price set

July 15, 2014 - 12:00am
The government wants to slowly wean rice farmers away from the price support provided by the National Food Authority (NFA),...
Business
fbtw
SRA seeks more time to ship add’l sugar export quota to US

SRA seeks more time to ship add’l sugar export quota to US

July 15, 2014 - 12:00am
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) will ask the United States for an extension for the shipment of the additional export...
Business
fbtw

Only a system change can save our country; Coconut trees are dying

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | July 12, 2014 - 12:00am
I despair when I read the 1001 things from graft to sheer ignorance to human rights violation in this administration. Is there still a chance for Filipinos to achieve their potential as our heroic forefathers e...
Opinion
fbtw

Spirulina Filipina

By Pons M. Abatayo | September 8, 2013 - 12:00am
Si Mr. Domingo D. Tapiador, usa ka retiradong Filipino nga gikan sa United Nations/Food and Agriculture, nga sa 1994 gisulat niya ang libro mahitungod sa Spirulina, nga nagpaambit sa iyang kahibalo, kun unsa kadaghan...
Banat Opinyon
fbtw

Senate issues arrest order vs. rice trader

By Christina Mendez | August 29, 2012 - 6:00pm
The Senate committee on Food and Agriculture issued on Wednesday the arrest order against one of the rice traders who showed interest in the 420,000 sacks for rice from India, which were seized at the Subic Bay Metropolitan...
fbtw

Imported na karneng baka ligtas kainin

By Doris Franche/Malou Escudero | April 28, 2012 - 12:00am
Ligtas pang bumili at kumain ng mga imported na karneng baka kahit may report ng mad cow disease sa Estados Unidos.
Bansa
fbtw

World food prices now at their highest level in 20 years - UN

March 5, 2011 - 12:00am
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Prices for major crops climbed Thursday as a UN agency said food costs are now at their highest point since the agency began tracking them 20 years ago.
Business
fbtw

Wrong focus on rice

By Leandro V. Coronel | December 20, 2009 - 12:00am
Why haven’t we Filipinos extricated ourselves from decades of grinding poverty? Whose fault is it, the government’s, the people’s, or the farmers who till our lands?
Agriculture
fbtw

Running for others

January 18, 2009 - 12:00am
2009 has begun and I am almost sure everyone is doing two things as the new year opened.
Business
fbtw
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