Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. is eyeing an end to the negative perception on the National Food Authority (NFA) rice, as he seeks to guarantee that the government's P20-per-kilo rice ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is again asking lawmakers to put back some of the regulatory powers of its attached agency, the National Food Authority (NFA), including the authority to directly ...

AGRICULTURE Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) to move its stocks to the Visayas for the pilot implementation of the P20 per kilogram (kg) rice program ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. has instructed the National Food Authority (NFA) to begin repositioning rice stocks to the Visayas in preparation for the launch of the P20-per-kilo ...

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 ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) said it built up reserves equivalent to nine days’ consumption — 7.17 million 50-kilogram bags of milled rice, the highest inventory level since the end of 2020. The ...

Benhur Abalos Jr. called for urgent amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) to empower the National Food Authority (NFA), citing the law’s negative impact on local farmers and its failure to ...

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 ...

MALACAÑANG said the National Food Authority (NFA) is ready to rent warehouses so it can buy more rice from farmers during the ongoing harvest season. “If the warehouse will have insufficient ...

MANILA, Philippines — Higher buying price allowed the National Food Authority (NFA) to expand its purchases from palay farmers in January by more than eight times on an annual basis to over ...

MANILA, Philippines – The National Food Authority (NFA) is initiating a P10-billion modernization program aimed at increasing the country’s rice inventory and warehousing capacity in ...