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Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. on Sunday expressed confidence in a better performance for Philippine agriculture in the second quarter of 2025. 

Japan’s rice prices are facing their most severe shock in more than half a century, with costs more than doubling over the past year.

New Delhi: The flare-up in West Asia following US missile strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities

The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday signed an agreement with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)

There has been an abnormal increase in domestic consumption of fine and superfine varieties of rice in Andhra Pradesh.

Rice is Asia’s economic pulse and lifeblood, a cultural cornerstone that binds societies. Yet Japan and the Philippines are turning this food staple into a policy disaster.

The Department of Labor and Employment-Davao (DOLE-11), in partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA) XI

Japan's farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi has returned to the political spotlight by launching a push to lower rice prices amid rising household burdens

Tokyo, June 16 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese agriculture ministry on Monday announced the abolition of the rice crop yield index, effective with this year's harvest.

India's food grain storage capacity boosted by 19.5 lakh tonne steel silos under PPP. Another 65 lakh tonne under construction or tender. Modernization improves foodgrain preservation and reduces losses.

NAGA CITY, Camarines Sur (PIA)—Farmers in Camarines Sur are turning to bio-fertilizers

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is scaling up the subsidized rice sale with the inclusion of more beneficiaries and additional Kadiwa outlets in different areas nationwide

Alathur: The delay in renewing the agreement between the State Bank of India (SBI)

This country remains the world’s top rice exporter in 2024-2025, shipping 22 million metric tonnes, nearly three times more than Thailand and Vietnam.

Rice importers have announced that the price of the commodity may change in 2025 as the FG’s import waiver expires

Under the project implemented since 2003, Vietnam sent its experts to Cuba to directly guide Cuban

A simmering crisis over staple rice has suddenly boiled over in Japan. Since 2023, a punishing heatwave slashed harvests to their lowest in over a decade.