Agriculture
Initial batch of sugar imports seen easing retail price in two weeks
The first of three shipments totaling 440,000 metric tons of sugar has arrived and expected to cut the price of the commodity significantly over the next two weeks.
PhilRice distributing 4.27 million inbred rice seed bags
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is distributing 4.27 million bags of inbred rice seeds and widened the program to cover 77 rice-producing provinces instead of only 42.
$150 million expected from durian shipments to China
Durian exports to China are seen yielding as much as $150 million, or P8.29 billion, in export receipts this year alone, according to the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI).
PhilMech embarks on a P500 million program to monetize tons of discarded coconut husk
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) has set aside an initial P500 million to set up shared processing facilities (SPFs) for qualified coconut farmer cooperatives over the course of the year.
Previously explained sugar imports hurt subsistence farmers the most – stakeholders
Sugar industry stakeholders urged the government just before the long weekend to conduct an "open and transparent" investigation on sugar acknowledged to have been...
