The national rice buffer stock is now good for 10 days amid the palay (unhusked rice) procurement from the local farmers, the ...

The National Food Authority (NFA) said it has enough money to purchase more unmilled rice from farmers even after its ...

The National Food Authority (NFA) on Tuesday assured adequate funds to buy more palay (unhusked rice) from local farmers amid ...

MANILA, Philippines – The National Food Authority (NFA) is prepared to purchase more palay (unmilled rice) from local farmers—even after building the highest rice inventory in five years—to ...

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO (UPDATED) — Thousands of sacks of palay have been piled up and left unprocessed into rice in the ...

The NFA said farmers were encouraged to sell by the agency’s palay (unmilled rice) buying price that averaged P27 a kilo last year and around P24 this year. The NFA said it still has ample funds to ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) is planning to do away with palay (unmilled rice) rebagging, using the agency's sacks to save approximately half a billion pesos annually.

In a statement, the NFA said it has built a buffer stock of about 7.17 million 50-kilogram bags of milled rice. The grains agency said this is its highest inventory level since the end of 2020, backed ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) said on Sunday that it plans to procure around 880,000 metric tons (MT) of palay, or unmilled rice, this year. The planned volume will allow the NFA to meet its ...

(Our stocks of palay, rice and rice equivalent are increasing. We really have to move out and dispose it.) The food emergency declaration enabled the DA to sell NFA rice stocks to local governments.

Castro said the NFA warehouses (in other areas) can still accommodate more palay from farmers. “All the farmers who will be selling… they just need to line up because it’s peak season now ...

We need to restore NFA’s powers to regulate rice retail and manage stocks more effectively,” Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said. The agency’s total palay inventory stood at 399,701 ...