As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has ...
Rice (Oryza sativa) agriculture provides food and economic security for nearly half of the world’s population. Rice agriculture is intensive in both land and agrochemical use. However, rice fields ...
RICE production in the Philippines has largely stagnated since 2017, even as consumption continues to rise, leaving the ...
Philippine rice production has largely stalled since 2017, widening the gap between domestic output and rising consumption, ...
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 ...
Rice and other harvests in the Philippines were damaged earlier this month, when typhoons Kalmaegi and Fung-Wong struck the ...
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 ...
Strangers started offering money, and together raised 50,000 pesos (S$1,100) to save the animal. Read more at ...
The storm that hit the Philippines has caused millions of dollars' worth of damage in the country's rice-producing region. Farmers in one submerged community are working to salvage what they can. Now ...