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TRADE Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said he is in favor of allowing confectionery producers to import sugar to ensure that the price of local candies and b..

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said the Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to facilitate the transfer of more than P1 billion worth of..

The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) and economists on Wednesday expressed their opposition to the proposal of the National Food Aut..

THE country’s economic managers renewed their call to Congress this week to pass House Bill 4904, or the rice tariffication bill, to amend the A..

Tax reform has undoubtedly coincided with a period of higher inflation risk in the country. Any man or woman on the street can tell you that the slow ..

Every administration has high aspirations of making our country self-sufficient in rice. This is understandable, considering that we are a rice-consum..

THE average age of farmers and fisherfolks in the Philippines is 57 years old. That was established by the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Agri..

Despite the passage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, government support to farmers of high-value crops, such as banana, pineapple, and sugarc..

LOGISTICS is defined as the integration of transport, warehousing, freight forwarding and information services. Along with competitiveness of products..

We need a radical resurgence in agriculture. Road maps will help achieve this objective. In 2017, agriculture grew by 3.9 percent. But from 2013 to 2..

The government should encourage agribusiness venture arrangements (AVAs) and sugarcane block farming (SBF) to boost agrarian reform beneficiaries&rsqu..

Other groups such as the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) and Bantay Bigas have been asking the government to heed the plea of farmers to in..

Part One A quick Google search will show that coconut oil (CNO) has more than a hundred uses—from cooking oil and moisturizer to medicines. And..

Just last week, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), the country’s primary socioeconomic policy think tank, recommended that..

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte plans to meet the National Food Authority (NFA) Council next week to personally address the shortage of buffer stock of subs..