What is causing our rice crisis today is a lack of competence and compassion (malasakit), much more than corruption. This surfaced at the hearing of the Senate Committee on ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has urged lawmakers to support amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), ...

The United Nations has lobbied for years to decrease the cost of sending remittances precisely because they are so important ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has directed the Rice Industry Development Office (RIDO) to study the changing ...

Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. warned the Vietnam rice industry against challenging the Philippines’ move to suspend all ...

AGRICULTURE Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Jr. said the Philippines is prepared to turn to other rice suppliers if ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) expressed support for a “green lane” plan aimed at enhancing interagency coordination and streamlining the entry of strategic investments, particularly in the ...