MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A ship carrying 7,000 tonnes of grain has sailed from Ukraine’s occupied port of Berdyansk, the region’s Moscow-appointed official said on Thursday, marking the first grain shipment since the start of hostilities. “After numerous months of delay, the first merchant ship has left the Berdyansk commercial port, 7,000 tonnes of grain are heading toward friendly countries,” Evgeny Balitsky, the head of the pro-Russia administration, said on Telegram. Russia’s Black Sea […]
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Alvarez: NFA Council no longer needed
(Eagle News)–For Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the National Food Authority Council is no longer needed. In a radio interview on Sunday, Alvarez said there was, after all, an NFA administrator who could oversee the country’s rice situation. “Pag ginawa niya ng maayos trabaho niya, siguro naman walang problema,” he said. Alvarez made the pronouncement after Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered the NFA Council abolished in a meeting with rice traders on […]





