Agriculture
Group pushes for RTL amendment amid persistent price and imports issues
Congress needs to re-assess and amend the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) amid the current spike in rice prices as this could lead to a...
Q1 meat imports up 1.03 percent
The volume of meat imports in the first quarter this year increased by 1.03 percent to 265.52 million kilograms from last year of only...
Agri stakeholders reject 330,000 MT rice import plan
Various stakeholders criticized the government plan to import 330,000 metric tons (MT) of rice to fill up the projected deficit in National Food Authority's...
BFAR recommends continued fishing ban in Mindoro
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has refused to lift the fishing ban imposed in municipalities affected by the oil spill in...
Initial damage attributable to TD Amang estimated at P12.34M
Damage to the agriculture sector brought about by tropical depression (TD) Amang is estimated at P12.34 million, according to initial estimates by the Department of Agriculture’s...
