+ Follow National Food Authority Tag
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[Title] => NFA raises palay buying price
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) is offering farmers as much as P30 per kilogram for clean and dry palay, while also doubling the volume growers can sell to 500 bags per cropping season.
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[Title] => No sale of P20-per-kilo rice on November 2
[Summary] => There will be no sale of P20-per-kilo subsidized rice on All Souls’ Day, November 2.
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[Title] => NFA cuts palay handling time, costs
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) has substantially reduced palay handling time and costs in a pilot test of one-ton bags, replacing conventional 50-kilogram sacks in a system that could speed up grain procurement, maximize warehouse capacity, and free up funds for buying more palay.
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[Title] => 178 ka sakong NFA rice nausik, gilabay nalang
[Summary] => Gilabay na lang ang 178 ka sakong bugas nga gitagana unta alang sa mga molupyo sa lungsod sa Bantayan human kini gideklarar nga dili na angay kan-on sa tawo tungod sa agup-op ug pagkadaot samtang gitip-igan sa bodega sulod sa kapin usa ka tuig.
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[Title] => NFA adopts purchase order system for palay
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) has adopted a purchase order (PO) system for procuring locally produced palay or unmilled rice, aimed at streamlining and improving monitoring of buffer stock volumes.
[DatePublished] => 2026-09-28 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Adrian Kenneth Halili
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[Title] => NFA misses buffer stock procurement target in Q1
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) missed its unhusked rice procurement target of 313,315 metric tons (MT) from January to early-May, amid aggressive palay purchases from private traders.
[DatePublished] => 2026-05-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => NFA earns P936.5 million from rice tender
[Summary] => The state-run National Food Authority (NFA) has announced earnings of P936.5 million from the auction of its aging rice stocks, exceeding its target of P912.4 million.
[DatePublished] => 2026-02-23 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas
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[Title] => NFA: Palay floor price to stay above single-digit
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) yesterday assured rice farmers that the floor price for palay procurement will not be reduced to single-digit levels, easing concerns that farmers would be forced to sell their harvest at a tremendous loss.
[DatePublished] => 2025-10-01 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Alden Monzon
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[Title] => DA finalizing bill restoring NFA powers
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture is finalizing a draft bill aimed to restore certain functions of the National Food Authority particularly to ensure the P20 per kilo rice program of the Marcos administration would be sustained until the end of his term.
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[AuthorName] => Ghio Ong
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[Title] => Probe sought as Nueva Ecija farmers’ deaths linked to low palay prices
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture has denied claims that three Nueva Ecija farmers took their own lives due to low palay prices but has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to look into the matter.
[DatePublished] => 2025-03-26 15:46:00
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[AuthorName] => Dominique Nicole Flores
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National Food Authority
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[Title] => NFA raises palay buying price
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) is offering farmers as much as P30 per kilogram for clean and dry palay, while also doubling the volume growers can sell to 500 bags per cropping season.
[DatePublished] => 2026-11-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => No sale of P20-per-kilo rice on November 2
[Summary] => There will be no sale of P20-per-kilo subsidized rice on All Souls’ Day, November 2.
[DatePublished] => 2026-11-02 09:07:00
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[Title] => NFA cuts palay handling time, costs
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) has substantially reduced palay handling time and costs in a pilot test of one-ton bags, replacing conventional 50-kilogram sacks in a system that could speed up grain procurement, maximize warehouse capacity, and free up funds for buying more palay.
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[Title] => 178 ka sakong NFA rice nausik, gilabay nalang
[Summary] => Gilabay na lang ang 178 ka sakong bugas nga gitagana unta alang sa mga molupyo sa lungsod sa Bantayan human kini gideklarar nga dili na angay kan-on sa tawo tungod sa agup-op ug pagkadaot samtang gitip-igan sa bodega sulod sa kapin usa ka tuig.
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[Title] => NFA adopts purchase order system for palay
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) has adopted a purchase order (PO) system for procuring locally produced palay or unmilled rice, aimed at streamlining and improving monitoring of buffer stock volumes.
[DatePublished] => 2026-09-28 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1808913
[AuthorName] => Adrian Kenneth Halili
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[Title] => NFA misses buffer stock procurement target in Q1
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) missed its unhusked rice procurement target of 313,315 metric tons (MT) from January to early-May, amid aggressive palay purchases from private traders.
[DatePublished] => 2026-05-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => NFA earns P936.5 million from rice tender
[Summary] => The state-run National Food Authority (NFA) has announced earnings of P936.5 million from the auction of its aging rice stocks, exceeding its target of P912.4 million.
[DatePublished] => 2026-02-23 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1375272
[AuthorName] => Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas
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[Title] => NFA: Palay floor price to stay above single-digit
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) yesterday assured rice farmers that the floor price for palay procurement will not be reduced to single-digit levels, easing concerns that farmers would be forced to sell their harvest at a tremendous loss.
[DatePublished] => 2025-10-01 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Alden Monzon
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[Title] => DA finalizing bill restoring NFA powers
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture is finalizing a draft bill aimed to restore certain functions of the National Food Authority particularly to ensure the P20 per kilo rice program of the Marcos administration would be sustained until the end of his term.
[DatePublished] => 2025-06-23 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ghio Ong
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[Title] => Probe sought as Nueva Ecija farmers’ deaths linked to low palay prices
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture has denied claims that three Nueva Ecija farmers took their own lives due to low palay prices but has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to look into the matter.
[DatePublished] => 2025-03-26 15:46:00
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[AuthorName] => Dominique Nicole Flores
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