Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. on Wednesday announced the implementation of the sale of P20 per kilo of rice, which will be piloted in Visayas. This came after a ...

Former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice bucked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s intelligence following weeks of scrutiny over leaks at the Pentagon amid massive spending reductions at the ...

Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are at least six ways in Japanese to describe the grain, from unhusked to ready to eat. It’s so popular that McDonald’s there added a burger ...

The government's stockpiled rice delivered from storage to a rice milling plant is stored in a tank for unpolished rice in Saitama Prefecture on March 18, 2025. (Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa ...

An increasing number of Japanese tourists are visiting South Korea to buy rice, as prices continue to soar in Japan, retail industry officials say. Japanese visitors have increasingly been spotted ...

The inventory storage area of a rice store in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, has been left with few bags of rice since March, as seen on April 9, 2025. (Mainichi/Kazugi Yamaguchi) TOKYO -- Rice ...

Senatorial candidate and ACT-CIS party-list Representative Erwin Tulfo on Sunday called for the restoration of the National Food Authority’s mandate to purchase palay from local farmers and sell rice ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said the rice processing systems introduced by the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) have boosted milling recovery rates to ...

Rice procurement has slowed down in March, as the increase of 5 per cent as of February 28 has come down to a lead of 1 per cent as of March 31, after the 2024-25 season began on October 1 last year.

MANILA, Philippines — The government can transition from providing direct cash “ayuda” to allocating its funds for aid to rice subsidies so that people can buy grains at P20 per kilogram ...