Average retail prices of rice at the national level decreased in early May while prices of meat increased amid the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) interventions to stabilize retail prices, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
Chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has pledged to further crash the prices of rice and other food items, which he said have already decreased over the past year.
A senior official of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ruled out including talks on an expansion of U.S. rice imports in tariff negotiations between Tokyo and Washington, a source close to the matter said.
Tokyo, May 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government is considering revising bidding conditions for the purchase of government-stockpiled rice, it was learned on Friday.
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