Most consumers particularly in the Metro Manila still prefer to buy the good quality but low-priced rice of the National Food Authority even if newly harvested local rice are available in the market
After a brief lull in palay procurement with the end of the main harvest, the buying activity of the National Food Authority is again in the upswing with the onset of summer harvest or palagad
National Food Authority administrator Jessup P Navarro said the NFA is already operating an initial eleven units of mechanical dryers using biomass furnace to boost its drive to reduce grains post-harvest losses and cut the cost of palay drying ...Read more>>
The National Food Authority has distributed a total of 27 million bags of rice at P1825 per kg last year in support of the pro-poor programs of the government to combat hunger and alleviate poverty in the country ...Read more>>
The National Food Authority has sufficient rice inventory to meet the present market demand and prevent unwarranted increase in the price of the basic staple
The National Food Authority - Food Development Center (NFA-FDC) will conduct a Professional Workshop on Plastic Packaging and Shelf Life on February 25-27, 2009 at the FDC Compound, FTI Complex, Taguig City
The course will provide participants the basic principles of plastic
packaging, polymer selection, deteriorative reactions in foods and shelf
life ...Read more>>