NFA Administrator Larry Lacson noted the need to move rice from Mindoro to supplement areas with limited rice production, such as Cebu, Negros Island, Samar, and Leyte. “The additional stocks for the ...

SAN JOSE, Occidental Mindoro — A total of 35,000 bags of rice representing the first shipment of rice supply from Mindoro already arrived in Central Visayas, according to the National Food Authority ...

Over 160,000 hectares (ha) of rice fields may be affected by rainfall from Tropical Depression Crising and the southwest monsoon or "habagat," according to a Facebook post by the Philippine Rice ...

Since its launch in May, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s initiative to provide PHP20 per kg. rice to vulnerable sectors ...

MANILA, Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday warned law enforcers, soldiers and others against "flagging down" rice delivery trucks, acts which cause increases in the price of ...

VICTORIA, Oriental Mindoro — The Cash and Rice Distribution (CARD) Program has reached the province of Oriental Mindoro, with a total of 2,000 residents receiving cash and rice assistance from ...

MANILA, Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will witness on Monday the unloading of the initial summer harvest from Mindoro province at the port of Batangas on Monday.A Malacañang ...

Filipino farmers are burdened by shrinking harvests and rising costs. And they speak of fields that no longer respond—even to ...

In Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, rice seller and store owner Sarah Miraples, 50, said that if the price cap were implemented, she would surely lose money.

Speaker Martin Romualdez, along with Oriental Mindoro Gov. Humerlito Dolor and Rep. Arnan Panaligan, oversees the distribution of cash and rice to 200 recipients at the Mindoro State University ...