The Philippines’ first Rice Straw Bioenergy Hub was officially launched in Pila, Laguna on Oct. 7 to showcase groundbreaking solutions that transform rice straw from waste into valuable products.

Farm workers use a cart pulled by a carabao to collect sacks of palay processed by a combine harvester at a farm in Guimba, ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has earmarked P3.3 billion to improve rice yield and reduce postharvest losses over the ...

The Philippines is projected to produce enough rice to meet 84 percent of its domestic demand by the end of next year, ...

The country’s self-sufficiency in rice fell to its lowest level in almost four decades, as milling recovery dropped while ...

The Philippines plans to broadly extend its ban on rice imports until April to support farmers in the world’s biggest buyer ...

Every harvest and milling season, rice straws—or dayami—are often discarded as waste in agricultural fields due to the lack ...

By Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, Reporter THE PHILIPPINES will implement a one-month rice import window in January and reimpose a ban on imports from February to April, as the government seeks to ...

Dumingag, the largest town in the province of Zamboanga del Sur with over 50,000 population, continues to thrive as a ...

As of the end of September 2025, the Philippines had imported 3.5 million tonnes of rice, far exceeding the “reasonable” ...

The Government of Japan has allocated ¥1.7 billion (approximately P664 million) to support the buffer stocking mandate of the ...

The Philippines, the top rice importer globally, plans to keep rice imports banned until April to support farmers but allow a ...