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Hybrid Rice + Innovations: A Path Forward For Climate-smart Agriculture.

08 January 2024, Philippines: Rice, while a staple food for half of the world’s population, is also a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily methane and nitrous oxide. With rice cultivation accounting for nearly 48% of all GHG emissions from croplands, solutions are urgently needed to address this global environmental challenge. A comprehensive […]

Indonesia sets focus on key provinces to achieve rice self-sufficiency by 2025.

Julian Isaac Minister of Agriculture, Amran Sulaiman, reveals that West, Central, and East Java are key provinces in achieving the government’s target of rice self-sufficiency in 2025, with around 60 percent of national rice production originating from these three locations. The Coordinating Ministry for Food Affairs cited that the total primary to tertiary irrigation network […]

Govt depends on imports to boost rice, wheat stocks.

Masud Rana. Government foodgrain stocks have significantly declined, prompting urgent measures to replenish reserves. Current stock levels stand at just over 1.2 million tonnes, with rice accounting for about 8,00,000 tonnes and wheat making up the rest. To address this, the government has launched an initiative to import 1.6 million tonnes of rice and wheat […]

P29 brings high-quality rice to 35M poor Filipinos

Everybody wins in ‘Rice for All’ program By Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13) Because rice is considered the essence of the Filipino, it’s only fair that they should be offered to the Pinoy consumer in the most affordable way possible. This is exactly what the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has set out to […]

Adviser: Rice imports to be increased to stabilize prices

If necessary, special Open Market Sale (OMS) programs will be initiated, the adviser said. Tribune Desk To stabilize rice prices, the Ministry of Food has been instructed to increase rice imports from any available sources, said Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed. During a press briefing at the Secretariat on Tuesday following a meeting of the […]

Govt to procure 1 cargo LNG, 50,000 tonnes non-basmati boiled rice.

The approval came from the 2nd meeting of the Advisers’ Council Committee on Government Purchase today. The government today (7 January) approved separate proposals for procuring one cargo LNG and some 50,000 tonnes of non-Basmati boiled rice to meet the growing demand of the country. The approval came from the 2nd meeting of the Advisers’ […]

No rice for TCB family cardholders in Jan amid supply shortage.

The shift from handwritten cards to the smart family cards will result in more than 37 lakh cardholders not receiving any product from the TCB in January. The hardship of low-income family cardholders is set to worsen as the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has excluded rice from its list of subsidised food items for […]

Gov’t to set maximum SRP for imported rice

By: Jordeene B. Lagare – @inquirerdotnet. MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to introduce before the end of the month a maximum suggested retail price (MSRP) for imported rice to bring down prices. In an interview on Monday, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said the policy MSRP would be “released very […]