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 Fast facts on rice Lean and abundant seasons in 2007 Rice Prices |
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| No rice shortage but RP 'vulnerable' If government officials are to be believed, we should not fear since the rice situation is under control. After all, local rice farms, like clockwork, are churning enough until mid-year. |
| Coping with higher food prices Eddie Tubice is as pedicab driver. He works 13 hours a day so he can send his four kids to school, one of whom is already going to college this June. Despite his hard work, Eddie says his earnings aren't enough to make ends meet. |
| Rising costs force fast-food firms to hike prices It's no surprise that skyrocketing commodity costs are harder to swallow these days, even for fast-food makers. |
| UN may decrease rice aid to Mindanao children If donations don't arrive by April, the World Food Program will lessen its supply to 187,000 schoolers in conflict areas. The impending rice crisis is going to hit children in Mindanao the hardest. |
| Gov't taking right steps to prevent food crisis: UN official An official of the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) on Thursday allayed fears of a food crisis in the Philippines. |
| Color-coding for NFA rice? House Speaker Prospero Nograles didn’t specify a color, but he is seriously proposing to the National Food Authority (NFA) to put food coloring on its rice stock to distinguish it from commercial rice varieties. |
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| A new deal for global food policy As financial markets have tumbled, food prices have soared. |
| High world food prices here to stay - UN expert NEW DELHI - Nations will move to raise food supplies but the world is living through a structural shift towards higher food prices that will be hard to reverse, the chief of a United Nations agency fighting rural poverty said. |
| Food riots to worsen without global action: UN ROME - Food riots in developing countries will spread unless world leaders take major steps to reduce prices for the poor, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday. |
| FAO says soaring cereal prices threaten peace and security ROME - Soaring cereal prices are a growing threat to world peace and security and to the human rights of developing countries facing food crises, the head of the UN food agency warned Friday. |
| Asia rice panic should subside as farmers rush crops SINGAPORE - A global rush for rice that has heightened food security anxiety across Asia should slow in coming months, as consumer nations replenish lowly stocks, extra crops boost supplies and a sense of panic subsides. |
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| Agri expert: RP should raise farmers' productivity Government has to invest in appropriate irrigation systems for the farmers and link them up with the markets a former agriculture undersecretary said. |
| P43B agri plan, a short-term solution to food crisis In the rainless summer day in Pampanga, one thing poured: government promises to support and subsidize farmers. |
| Rice farmers earn more when traders hoard rice: economist According to Arsenio Balisacan, professor at the UP economics department and director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, when enterprising rice traders invest in more than their usual stockpile of rice, the traders are actually facilitating the start of increase in prices as early as now. |
| Mindanao is the answer to looming ‘food crisis’ Amid fears of a looming 'food crisis', Mindanao congressmen on Friday asked President Arroyo for the early release of the region’s budget allocation to be able to produce enough food for the rest of the country. |
| Amid food crisis, rice land converted into industrial zone Conversion of agricultural lands into industrial and residential areas has been one of the reasons for the decline in rice production. |
| Science community divided over new way to increase rice yield An Engineer-cum-social activist seeks to convince local farmers and the Philippine government to increase rice production not by going the hybrid rice route, but by adopting system of rice intensification education (SRI), a ‘cultural’ modification in farming technology that reportedly costs less, but produces more. |
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NFA Rolling Stores sell rice at cheaper rates to residents of depressed communities, but agri officials say government may not be able to sustain current rates any longer. (Photo by Buck Pago)
NFA Rolling Stores sell rice at cheaper rates to residents of depressed communities, but agri officials say government may not be able to sustain current rates any longer. (Photo by Buck Pago)
NFA Rolling Stores sell rice at cheaper rates to residents of depressed communities, but agri officials say government may not be able to sustain current rates any longer. (Photo by Buck Pago)
NFA Rolling Stores sell rice at cheaper rates to residents of depressed communities, but agri officials say government may not be able to sustain current rates any longer. (Photo by Buck Pago)
NFA Rolling Stores sell rice at cheaper rates to residents of depressed communities, but agri officials say government may not be able to sustain current rates any longer. (Photo by Buck Pago)
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