They call him the Durian King. When truckloads of durians arrive at the fruit stand at Magsaysay Park, the durian trucker no longer bothers unloading the thorny fruits in baskets. All the trucker had to do is throw the fruits at him and he’d catch them with his bare hands.
According to the report from the Mindanao Economic Development Council (Medco), the islands biggest importation last year consisted of US$138.28 million rice from Vietnam, making up 12 per cent of Mindanaos total imports.
Mindanao is living up to its tagline as the country’s food basket by posting robust performance in rice and corn…
Durian growers in the region are feeling the effects of rising oil price as production decreased by 40 percent this…
It would have been cheaper for government to source rice in the domestic market instead of importing rice abroad if there had been enough supply of rice in the country, according to the leader of the National Food Authority Employees Association (NFAEA).
City officials voiced concerns over the continuing scarcity of cheap rice in the region, with the National Food Authority (NFA) failing to provide 60-70 percent of the city’s daily consumption.
The National Food Authority (NFA) is selling its special grade imported Thai rice in commercial markets here to bring down the soaring prices of rice that have gone up to as much as P52 a kilo in the previous weeks.
In these times of increasing prices of rice and other basic commodities, the Filipino people are forced to swallow the…
“On top of the food crisis suffered more severely by the impoverished farmers, militarization is making life much harsher for…
