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99 days ago

Additional rice imports to send wrong signal to farmers – FFF

By Louise Maureen Simeon | 99 days ago

Farmers may be at the losing end anew as the government plans to import an additional 300,000 metric tons of rice via government-to-government...

Business

Farmers dispute government claims on huge drop in rice prices

By Louise Maureen Simeon | February 28, 2020 - 12:00am

Local farmers refuted the government’s claim that the rice tariffication law was the reason behind the significant drop in rice prices.

130 days ago

Business

287 days ago

‘Safeguard duties on rice unlikely to push prices up’

By Louise Maureen Simeon | 287 days ago

Local consumers will not feel the burden of higher prices of rice even if the government imposes safeguard duties on imp...

Business

303 days ago

Rice imports management key to stem falling prices

By Louise Maureen Simeon | 303 days ago

The government is being urged to focus on the root cause of declining palay (unhusked rice) prices instead of relying on palliative...

Agriculture

Farmers lose P40 B as palay prices drop

By Louise Maureen Simeon | August 9, 2019 - 12:00am

Local farmers lost P40 billion in the first half of the year due to the significant drop in palay prices following the entry of more cheap imported rice, according to the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF).

333 days ago

Business

Hurt by import surge, farmers seek anti-dumping duties

By Louise Maureen Simeon | August 2, 2019 - 12:00am

Local farmers want the government to impose anti-dumping duties and penalties on imported rice in a bid to address the undervaluation of the commodity following the new rice regime in the country.

340 days ago

Business

Farmers refute claims rice liberalization has lowered rice prices

By Louise Maureen Simeon | July 22, 2019 - 12:00am

Local farmers are contradicting the claim of the economic team that the opening up of the market has resulted in a significant decline in rice prices.

351 days ago

Business

Over a year ago

Farmers decry exclusion from rice fund committee

By Louise Maureen Simeon | Over a year ago

Local farmers condemned yesterday the exclusion of their representatives from the Program Steering Committee (PSC) of the...

Business

Farmers slam economic team for rushing rice tariffication IRR

By Louise Maureen Simeon | February 25, 2019 - 12:00am

Local farmers slammed the government’s economic managers for their decision to fast-track the crafting of the implementing rules and regulations of the rice import liberalization law, which replaces import...

Over a year ago

Business

Hacking can come from anywhere

FROM A DISTANCE - By Carmen N. Pedrosa | August 1, 2015 - 10:00am

It seemed for a while that the rich and powerful had a monopoly on electoral automated systems and that Filipino voters will just have to accept the results of the systems that they peddle around the world. One of...

Over a year ago

Opinion

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DILG on 7-day lockdown

The Department of the Interior and Local Government central office in Quezon City was placed on lockdown for a week beginning yesterday after DILG Undersecretary for operations Epimaco Densing III was infected with the coronavirus disease 2019.

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