A crackdown on rice smuggling in the Philippines is behind a run-up in prices of the country's staple food, some traders and analysts say. Smugglers ..

The poverty situation in the country did not significantly improve despite of the six-percent economic growth posted from 2003 to 2006, according to t..

Officials of the Agriculture department and the National Food Authority are at loggerheads with the Cabinet’s economic chief and a UP think tank on ..

The agri-industry alliance Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) scored former agriculture officials and trade experts yesterday for sowing fear ..

AS much as 80 percent of poor Filipinos live in the rural areas, said a report released by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute of Development ..

The ASEAN-Korea Center will host an international conference to review the past and future of relations between the 10-member regional bloc and Korea ..

Low consumer awareness is one of the main reasons why many Filipinos, especially the poor, have not fully taken advantage of the 25-year old Generic D..

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima believes that rice quotas imposed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) and National Food Authority (NFA) allowing gov..

Last week, reacting to the result of a Social Weather Station survey showing that joblessness had risen to 27.5% in the last quarter of 2013, Presiden..

THE Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food has invited four experts who conducted a study on technical smuggling of agricultural commodities over th..

Majority of Filipinos, particularly the poor, have not fully taken advantage of the benefits of the Generics Drugs Act, 25 years after the law was ena..

The government is always claiming that the number of poor is decreasing but it cannot deny the phenomenal growth of informal settlers across the count..

IT HAS been 25 years since the passage of the Generic Drugs Act and five years since the Cheaper Medicines Act, but majority of Filipinos, particularl..

Efforts to modernize customs administration will likely affect the brokerage profession, but Customs brokers that are willing to adjust to the winds o..

Efforts to modernize customs administration will likely affect the brokerage profession, but Customs brokers that are willing to adjust to the winds o..