The Department of Agriculture (DA) should rethink its proposed changes to the palm oil import policy of the government, according to a nongovernment organization. Bantay Palengke said restricting palm oil imports will trigger a surge in cooking oil prices and make it less accessible particularly to poor households. The group…
Bantay Palengke, an advocacy network focused on food and household goods, today called on the Department of Agriculture to immediately intervene on the
An advocacy network on Monday urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to intervene on the current upward trend on the market price of onions. “We have monitored that onions are now hovering around 200 pesos per kilo when it was just around 100 a week ago. In terms of ‘tumpukan,’…
Bantay Palengke, an advocacy network focused on food and household good prices, today cautioned the Department of Agriculture that their plan to impose
Manila is implementing a program that aims to boost the productivity of the local coconut sector to reduce the Philippines’s copra imports. The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) said the country is currently importing copra from Papua New Guinea to augment domestic supply, which has been reduced due to the low…