Our perennial rice problem
Secretary of Agriculture Emmanuel Piñol said there is now a surplus of 2.7 million metric tons of locally produced rice, ...
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Chickens in market safe to eat – Piñol
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Emmanuel Piñol assured the public yesterday that chickens being sold in the market right now ...
Bird flu hits Nueva Ecija
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Emmanuel Piñol confirmed in a Facebook statement yesterday another outbreak of the avian flu virus, ...
Farmers export brown rice
Organized farmers in this fast growing town have started exporting brown rice to markets in the Middle East.
Keep a close watch on rice prices
If rice prices start moving up in the coming weeks, it will be because our officials are still debating on ...
Import quota issue a concern for rice farmers
Provincial officials here want the national government to reveal safety nets that would shield rice farmers from the adverse effects ...
Piñol mulls cold storage for 3 provinces
While security officials of the current and next administrations are finding means and ways to curb Abu Sayyaf-led atrocities in ...
NIA chief told to quit if…
Still holding on to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s promise of free irrigation to farmers, incoming Agriculture chief Emmanuel Piñol has threatened ...
No urgent need to import rice – Piñol
The Philippines, one of the world’s biggest rice buyers, has no urgent need to import rice for now given ample ...