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Farmers warn of further drop in palay prices

By Louise Maureen Simeon | April 20, 2020 - 12:00am

Local farmers are expected to bear the brunt of the government’s pro-import stance as the farm- gate prices of palay...

Business

Montemayor on rice cartels

November 11, 2019 - 12:00am

Allow me to share some comments and insights on your recent article on rice cartels.

Business

Ex-PCIC chair gets 7 years for overpriced meals

By Michael Punongbayan | April 26, 2013 - 12:00am

 A former board chairman of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) was sentenced yesterday to serve a maximum of seven years in prison for tampering with meal receipts 13 years ago.

Metro

DA develops vegetable supply chains

March 25, 2007 - 12:00am

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has adopted measures to develop supply chains to deliver vegetables to the market at less cost to the consumers while providing more profit for the farmers.

Agriculture

Global protocol on biosafety could hurt RP

By Rocel Felix | January 22, 2006 - 12:00am

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety could prove to be disadvantageous to developing nations like the Philippines which are likely to bear the added costs of trans-boundary shipments of genetically-modified organisms...

Business

Farmers nix move to allow rice imports during harvest season

November 27, 2003 - 12:00am

The Philippine Farmers Advisory Board (PFAB), a network of national and local farmers’ organizations which advises the National Food Authority (NFA), has turned down the proposal of some farmers’ groups...

Nation

Asian farmers to lobby for sp’l WTO treatment

By Rose de la Cruz | March 18, 2002 - 12:00am

Leaders of Asian farm groups and cooperatives —— many of them influential with their respective governments —— will lobby for special and differential (SND) treatment with the World Trade Organization...

Business

Safeguards sought to prevent MAV abuse

By Rocel Felix | December 6, 2000 - 12:00am

Farmers’ groups are urging the Department of Agriculture (DA) to come up with more rigid measures to make sure that feedmillers and livestock producers do not abuse their allocations under the minimum access...

Business