Acting presidential spokesperson and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (File photo) MANILA - Malacanang on Tuesday urged the Senate to file charges against Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Rey Guerrero and 21 other personalities who were tagged as alleged protectors and smugglers of agricultural products worth hundreds of millions of pesos. This, after the Senate Committee of the Whole on Monday released a 63-page report of the list of personalities which included officials of the BOC, Department of Agriculture, and several mayors. The report said the amount of smuggled agri-fishery commodities from 2019 to 2022 was estimated at PHP667.5 million. "We are one with the Senate in fighting corruption in the bureaucracy," acting presidential spokesperson and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a press statement. Andanar said filing charges before the Ombudsman would also allow those accused to defend themselves. "File the necessary charges before the Off
HEAVY RAINS AND LANDSLIDES. Tropical Depression (TD) Agaton affects areas in Leyte with A landslide caused by heavy rains from Tropical Depression Agaton hits a community in Leyte on Monday (April 11, 2022). The Department of Agriculture said damage and losses in farms due to Agaton, which has now weakened into a low pressure area, have now amounted to PHP423.8 million. (Photos: Mayor Carl Cari's FB Page, PNP, and Mark Unlu-cay) MANILA - Tropical Depression (TD) Agaton which has now weakened into a low pressure area (LPA) has caused production losses worth PHP423.8 million for 6,557 farmers in the Visayas and nearby areas, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Wednesday. A bulletin released by the DA-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center said the losses were incurred particularly in Western and Eastern Visayas, as well as in the Caraga Region following heavy rainfalls. The losses are broken down as follows: PHP403.5 million for rice; PHP17.1 million for high
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Published January 13, 2021, 3:49 PM
The European Union may steal the Philippines’ title as the biggest rice importer in the world this year as the Southeast Asian nation is bent on achieving higher local palay production amid stricter import permit issuance.
“The Philippines is forecast to fall to the number two spot in 2021 as the largest global rice importer after the European Union,” the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its latest Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report.
The GAIN report said it is the improved palay production, government policies that constrain trade, and record-high prices from traditional suppliers that will be “key factors limiting imports this year”.