On June 12, 2013, during the celebration of the 115th anniversary of the country’s proclamation of independence, President Benigno Aquino III said: ..

The country’s year-on-year inflation rate slowed down to 4.1 percent in February, from 4.2 percent in January. The National Statistics Office (..

The declining enrollment in agriculture, forestry, and natural resources (AFNR) courses is an alarming phenomenon given the unbridled expansion of sta..

GOVERNMENTS generally tend to implement a number of measures or programs to help those with short- or long-term financial or economic problems. These ..

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto tagged yesterday the National Food Authority (NFA) as "inutile’’ for failing to protect local farmers ..

A crackdown on rice smuggling in the Philippines is behind a run-up in prices of the country's staple food, some traders and analysts say. Smugglers ..

The poverty situation in the country did not significantly improve despite of the six-percent economic growth posted from 2003 to 2006, according to t..

Officials of the Agriculture department and the National Food Authority are at loggerheads with the Cabinet’s economic chief and a UP think tank on ..

The agri-industry alliance Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) scored former agriculture officials and trade experts yesterday for sowing fear ..

AS much as 80 percent of poor Filipinos live in the rural areas, said a report released by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute of Development ..

The ASEAN-Korea Center will host an international conference to review the past and future of relations between the 10-member regional bloc and Korea ..

Low consumer awareness is one of the main reasons why many Filipinos, especially the poor, have not fully taken advantage of the 25-year old Generic D..

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima believes that rice quotas imposed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) and National Food Authority (NFA) allowing gov..

Last week, reacting to the result of a Social Weather Station survey showing that joblessness had risen to 27.5% in the last quarter of 2013, Presiden..