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Eating brown rice isn’t just the healthier option; it may help bring down rice prices and address local production shortfall.

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s rice self-sufficiency ratio (SSR) recovered to 78.5 percent last year, following a 24-year low of 77 percent in 2022, as a result of lower imports and higher domestic output.

Hyderabad: The rolling out of the ambitious scheme of supplying superfine rice (Sanna Biyyam) by the beginning of the new year through PDS (Public Distribution System) remains elusive.

A senior lawmaker of the House of Representatives on Monday expressed optimism that rice prices will drop further next year

The rice industry in Sri Lanka is being held hostage by a handful of powerful mill owners who manipulate prices

A Gazette notification has been issued stipulating the maximum wholesale and retail prices for both local and imported rice.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) is optimistic that rice inflation will continue to go down with lower tariffs on imports and the affordable rice programs of the government.

Local rice prices in Nigeria surged 137.32 per cent in October 2024 compared to the same period last year

VIJAYAWADA: The State government has decided to reconstitute the Special Investigation Team (SIT)

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Despite record production and ample stocks, the Philippines is expected to import a record volume of rice in the 2024-25 marketing year

THE country's total rice stocks in November totaled 2.46 million metric tons (MT), a 24.4-percent increase from the 1.98 million MT in the same period last year

The Department of Agriculture began selling rice at just P40 per kiko at the Pasay Public Market. Supplies however quickly ran out. Jervis Manahan, ABS-CBN News

Colombo , December 5 (Daily Mirror) -  Stocks of imported rice will be released from the Colombo Port within four hours of their arrival

Cabinet spokesman and Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa urged large-scale rice millers to release their rice stocks, considering it as an essential duty.

FIVE committees of the House of Representatives will hold an inquiry to find out why the cost of food items

PETALING JAYA: The lower price of imported white rice (BPI) at Padiberas Nasional Bhd (Bernas)

MANILA — The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the Department of Agriculture (DA)