Hike from Banaue to Cambulo and Batad, tracing ancient paddies to Tappiya Falls while meeting the Ifugao community sustaining ...

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines — The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has been advocating for tougher policy support for direct-seeded rice (DSR) ...

Los Baños, Philippines: As part of IRRI's 50th anniversary celebrations, three speakers from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and PhilRice concurred that the Philippines can be ...

A rice planting festival was held spearheaded by members of the Mayha Farmers Association in the municipality of Odiongan recently. The program is part of the Farmers Field School (FFS) on Rice ...

As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons (MMT) more rice than the country produced—an 18 percent shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported ...

MANILA, Philippines, November 14, 2013 (ENS) – Amidst the deaths and devastation wrought by Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan that lashed the Philippines last weekend, the island nation has caught a ...

MANILA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Philippines will hold three tenders in December to import 1.8 million tonnes of rice for 2010 in an unprecedented burst of buying by the world's largest importer of the ...

Reporting from Bulacan, Philippines — The Philippines has long touted the idea of self-sufficiency in rice, an essential staple here at the heart of every breakfast, lunch and dinner. But rice growers ...

The Philippines plans to broadly extend its ban on rice imports until April to support farmers in the world’s biggest buyer of the grain, a move that’s likely to put further pressure on global prices.