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A gift of rice and oil has been made to Trinidad and Tobago by the largest apex cooperative in Haryana, India.

MANILA, Philippines––As President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. addressed Filipinos for his third State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday (July 22), he made clear that local production, especially of rice, will be given priority by the government.

Worried by the soaring price of foodstuffs, especially staple food like rice, the Federal Government has set machinery in motion to distribute hundreds of thousands of 25kg bags of rice across the country to vulnerable groups.

(MENAFN) Sohrab Sohrabi, the director of the Iranian Agriculture Ministry’s wheat and rice project, has announced that rice has been cultivated on 650,000 hectares of land across 19 provinces in Iran. The majority of this cultivation is concentrated in the northern provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Golestan, where rice is grown on an extensive 550,000 hectares. This large-scale cultivation reflects the significant role these regions play in Iran’s rice production.

MANILA, Philippines — Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has defended the implementation of the P29 per kilo of rice after a farmers’ group questioned the program’s sustainability.

MANILA, Philippines — There is nothing irregular in the allocation of P1.69 billion in rice subsidy for personnel of the Philippine National Police.