ILOILO CITY—With most rice fields in Western Visayas now entering their ripening and maturity stages, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has warned of intensifying pest and disease pressures across ...
The Philippine Rice Research Institute advises farmers to regularly monitor their fields for signs of pests, including rodents, rice stemborers, brown planthoppers, and rice bugs, which usually appear ...
The Philippines yesterday declared a food security emergency in order to bring down the price of rice, which officials said have remained high despite last year’s cuts to the tariffs on imported rice.