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Topic: rice-importation

Rice supply 'alright' Marcos says as imports 'reduced'

Rice supply 'alright' Marcos says as imports 'reduced'

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 17 05:59 PM

'Talagang binawasan natin yung importation, doon natin kinukuha sa production. So okay, I think we'll be alright,' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said about the country's rice supply. Read more »

PH to import rice, corn 'as little as possible': Marcos

PH to import rice, corn 'as little as possible': Marcos

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 05 09:09 PM

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. on Tuesday vowed to import rice, corn, pork, and chicken 'as little as possible' even as his administration eyes to boost local production of food. Read more »

Unloading imported rice

Unloading imported rice

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 23 07:50 PM

Workers unload sacks of rice from Thailand into a warehouse in Tondo, Manila on Thursday. Read more »

PH collects P18.9B from rice customs duties in 2021

PH collects P18.9B from rice customs duties in 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 08 11:33 AM

The Bureau of Customs has collected P18.9 billion in customs duties from rice imports in 2021, the Department of Finance said Tuesday. Read more »

Rice import duties hit P17.9 billion in 2021: Customs

Rice import duties hit P17.9 billion in 2021: Customs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 02 01:49 PM

Some P17.9 billion in duties were collected from 2.8 million MT of rice shipments that entered the country from Jan. 1 to Dec. 10, 2021, the DOF said. Read more »

Isko Moreno courts farmers with vow to cut imports

Isko Moreno courts farmers with vow to cut imports

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 21 06:45 PM

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso wooed the support of farmers by vowing to establish more cold storage facilities if elected as president. Read more »

Locsin thanks Vietnam for offer of 'guaranteed' rice shipments

Locsin thanks Vietnam for offer of 'guaranteed' rice shipments

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 16 12:13 AM

MANILA - Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday thanked Vietnam for its “offer to guarantee rice shipments” to the Philippines during last year’s lockdown. Read more »

Finance chief orders BIR, Customs to investigate cooperatives used for rice imports

Finance chief orders BIR, Customs to investigate cooperatives used for rice imports

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 27 04:49 PM

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has ordered the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) to help the Department of Agriculture in investigating the alleged use of cooperatives by private traders as dummies for rice imports.    Read more »

Villar chides DA official over rice importation during harvest season

Villar chides DA official over rice importation during harvest season

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 22 04:04 PM

Sen. Cynthia Villar on Thursday came down hard on an agriculture official for granting rice importation permits during harvest season, further reducing the income of struggling smallholder farmers. Read more »

DA to ban farmer cooperatives from importing rice

DA to ban farmer cooperatives from importing rice

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 05:09 PM

Agriculture Secretary William Dar on Friday said that farmer cooperatives would soon be banned from importing rice as they are still allegedly being used by traders to illegally ship rice to the country. Read more »

Agri department assures of enough rice supply after gov't halts importation

Agri department assures of enough rice supply after gov't halts importation

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 02:30 PM

The Philippines has enough rice supply, the Department of Agriculture assured the public Thursday after MalacaƱang announced that it would no longer push through with its plan to import 300,000 metric tons of rice under a government-to-government scheme.   Read more »

PH gov't halts 300,000 MT rice importation due to sufficient supply

PH gov't halts 300,000 MT rice importation due to sufficient supply

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 29 05:50 PM

“Wala na pong rice importation munang mangyayari. Sapat po ang ating supply ng bigas," Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said in a Palace press briefing. Read more »

Rice import doesn't mean PH has supply shortage, says agri group

Rice import doesn't mean PH has supply shortage, says agri group

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 12 06:56 PM

Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura chairman Rosendo So said rice importation was a contingency measure to boost rice supply in Metro Manila Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 31, 2020

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 31, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 01 12:41 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Rice for quarantined communities

Rice for quarantined communities

Rolex Dela Pena, EPA-EFE
Updated as of Mar 31 09:40 PM

City workers on Tuesday pack rice in bags for distribution to quarantined communities in Marikina City amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

Philippines eyes rice imports as contingency: COVID-19 task force

Philippines eyes rice imports as contingency: COVID-19 task force

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 31 11:35 AM

The Philippines needs to import 300,000 metric tons of rice to ensure enough supply, a Cabinet official said Tuesday as the lockdown of Luzon drives demand for the staple grain. Read more »

PH to ask ASEAN partners to refrain from trade restrictions amid COVID-19 crisis

PH to ask ASEAN partners to refrain from trade restrictions amid COVID-19 crisis

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 27 11:35 PM

The Philippines will ask its neighbors in Southeast Asia to "refrain from imposing trade restrictive measures" to ensure supplies will not run out amid the mass quarantine in the country, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Friday. Read more »

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