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Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. led the National Food Authority’s (NFA) send-off of 35,000 bags of rice bound for Central Visayas. It is the second shipment under the pilot implementation of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s P20 rice program—a campaign promise he aims to sustain until the end of his term in June 2028. Tiu […]
Rice farmers from Central Luzon hailed the reopening of National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses in Bulacan and the aggressive palay procurement drive ordered by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., calling the intervention a lifeline that has revived their confidence to keep planting. During a visit to the NFA warehouse in this town, Marcos joined farmers in […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. recently met with regional managers and key officials of the National Food Authority (NFA) to ensure the rice sold under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s P20-per-kilo rice program meets high quality standards. Tiu Laurel, who also chairs the NFA Council, emphasized that this subsidized rice program presents an opportunity for […]
The Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) has severely weakened the National Food Authority’s (NFA) ability to stabilize rice prices and supply, stripping it of key regulatory powers—including the authority to sell rice directly to the public. Once a crucial player in controlling market prices through timely imports and public sales, the NFA is now reduced to […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. expressed “disappointment” over Vice President Sara Duterte’s remarks questioning the quality of rice from the National Food Authority (NFA), which is to be sold at P20 per kilo. “With all due respect to the Vice President, the Department of Agriculture (DA) family is deeply hurt by her suggestion that […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. instructed the National Food Authority (NFA) to begin repositioning rice stocks to the Visayas in preparation for the launch of the P20-per-kilo rice program. “It will take several weeks to transfer tens even hundreds of thousands of 50-kilo bags of rice from NFA warehouses, particularly from Mindoro, to various […]
The National Food Authority (NFA) has built up a buffer stock equivalent to 7.17 million 50-kilogram bags of milled rice—a volume enough to feed all Filipino for nine days. This is the agency’s highest inventory level since the end of 2020, helped by higher palay buying price that averaged P27 a kilo last year and […]
Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) president and Quirino Governor Dax Cua called on his fellow local leaders to take advantage of the cheaper rice stock from the National Food Authority (NFA) for their constituents. “This is an opportunity for us to provide immediate and much-needed relief to our constituents amid the high […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is releasing rice stocks of the National Food Authority to local government units (LGUs), responding to the declared food security emergency following a significant rise in rice prices. At a ceremony held at the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. officially handed […]
AGRI Party-list Representative Manoy Wilbert Lee is calling on the Department of Agriculture (DA) to effectively implement food security emergency for a maximum of three months and prioritize purchasing rice from local farmers to replenish the National Food Authority’s (NFA) buffer stock, which was released following the government’s declaration of a food security emergency. According […]