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By Mathias Cena with Cecilia Sanchez in New York TOKYO, Feb 15, 2024 (AFP) – Wrapped in seaweed and stuffed with delicious fillings, “onigiri” rice balls are shaking off their reputation as a cheap and uninspiring snack in Japan — and enticing hungry converts abroad. Mouth-watering pictures on social media, rising demand for affordable lunches, and a surge in tourism to Japan are all drawing people to the humble onigiri. Just ask any of the […]
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — The world’s biggest rice exporter India has banned some overseas sales of the grain “with immediate effect”, the government said, in a move that could drive international prices even higher. Rice is a major world food staple and prices on international markets have soared to decade highs as the world grappled with the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the impact of the El Nino weather phenomenon on production levels. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines became the world’s first country Friday to approve the commercial production of genetically modified “golden rice” that experts hope will combat childhood blindness and save lives in the developing world. A biosafety permit issued by government regulators paves the way for the rice — enriched with the vitamin A-precursor beta-carotene to make it more nutritional — to be grown by farmers across the country, its developers said. “It’s […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has seized over half a million pesos worth of smuggled rice from Myanmar. The bureau said the 495 bags of white rice were intercepted on Aug. 10 from the port of Cebu. This was made possible following a tip that a shipment that arrived from Kaohsiung, Taiwan on July 23 was loaded with imported rice. The Inward Foreign Manifest had declared the shipment contained personal effects of a […]
(Eagle News) — Starting this month, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam decided to resume rice exports to the Philippines and other members of ASEAN to help countries needing additional rice supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said this was a very welcome development. The Department of Agriculture said this would enable the region to maintain adequate food supply and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. “We welcome the decision by Vietnam to […]
(Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) donated 3,000 sacks of rice and at least 1,000 pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Manila City government as part of its continuing efforts to help people amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Manila City mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso personally received the INC donation for the Manila City residents at the INC Central Office in Quezon City on Friday, May 8, 2020. He […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture said that the country’s rice “supply remains on the optimistic side” as it projects a 94-day buffer stock by the end of December 2020. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that by the end of the year, the country will have a rice inventory of 3.27 million metric tons, as he assures the public that there is enough food amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “That means we will have […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government thanked the government of South Korea for its recent donation of 950 metric tons of rice for the thousands of Filipino families adversely affected by natural disasters and calamities last year. The South Korean government recently donated 950 metric tons (MT) of rice to the Philippines, particularly for the thousands of Filipino families adversely affected by natural disasters and calamities last year. “On behalf of President Rodrigo Roa […]
(Eagle News) – Agriculture Secretary William Dar assured that there is enough rice in Metro Manila to meet the Philippine capital’s requirements amid the enhanced community quarantine in place due to the coronavirus crisis. Dar said that the National Food Authority (NFA) as of Friday, March 20, has already completed the prepositioning of rice stocks which are ready for delivery and disbursement in strategic areas in Metro Manila. The agriculture chief also assured that there […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night directed Agriculture Secretary William Dar to suspend all rice importations, and to instead buy all the palay or rice harvested by the country’s farmers. Duterte said that the Department of Agriculture should buy all the palay of the country’s farmers at farmgate prices even if this would mean using up funds that would exceed the allocation for this. This is because he wants to support […]
by Haeril HALIM Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian Mirnawati once ate rice with every meal, but its link to diabetes convinced her to join a growing movement to quit a staple food in the third biggest rice-consuming nation on Earth. As World Diabetes Day is held Thursday, the Southeast Asian nation is struggling to tackle a disease that affects as many as 20 million of its 260 million people, and has emerged […]
