The DA said that they are monitoring rice prices amid looming increases in farmgate costs of P40-50 per sack, which translaters to 80 centavos to P1 per kilo increase for consumers.

A worker stacked sacks of rice at Kadiwa Store in the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City today. 

RICE AT A DA KADIWA STORE

Agriculture

Danny Querubin

Photographer

FFF asks BoC to probe undervalued rice imports

Federation of Free Farmers national Manager Rau Montemayor asked the Bureau of Customs to investigation the undervaluation of rice imports, which resulted in foregone tariffs of P7.7 billion in 2022.

Residents of Northern Samar province couldn't be prouder of their hard work after the province’s pili nuts made it to the International Food Exhibition (IFEX) in Dubai as one of the products featured in one of the world’s largest food exhibitions.

N. Samar's pili nuts land in Dubai expo

DA hints it’s powerless vs sugar cartel of Malacanang

Without tacitly admitting it, the Department of Agriculture, through Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban, virtually confirmed that it’s hands are tied when it comes to a sugar cartel being coddled by Malacanang (up President Marcos) who allowed importations even without the Memorandum Order, which is why the shipment arrived before the actual release of Sugar Order 6.

DA hints it’s powerless vs sugar cartel of Malacañang

Bill filed covering unorganized backyard livestock raisers

Many livestock raisers have started out of the need to augment the family income by caring for livestock in their backyards. Thus they are unorganized but their outputs contribute a great deal to the food supply chain. 

For the first time in the history of the sugarcane industry, planters, growers and sugarcane workers are united in denouncing the government-sponsored smuggling of sugar at the Port of Batangas last February 9, or a week before Sugar Order No. 6 authorizing the (legit) importation of 440,000 metric tons was issued by the Sugar Regulatory Authority, on instruction of Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban. The shipment and the volume to be imported under SO6 are way above what is required to force prices down and curb the surging food inflation.

Govt.-(sponsored) sugar smuggling

Soaring inflation sends DA panicking for sugar

The Department of Agriculture is standing pat that President Marcos knew of the importation of 400,000 metric tons—which were earlier shipped into the Port of Batangas by three administration-favored trades/importers— based on a memo signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin. The SO authorizing the importation came a week after the actual shipment of sugar from Thailand was intercepted at the Port of Batangas.