When the Philippines, the world’s biggest rice importer last year, announced on Tuesday that paddy rice output rose by 15.6 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago, it looked like a case of the ...

CALAMBA, Philippines (AP) — The aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has added urgency to finding a solution to a longstanding problem: less than 10 percent of farmers have crop insurance, ...

MANILA - The Philippines could be forced to import more rice after Typhoon Koppu hit major grain producing regions over the weekend causing "significant" losses, a senior agriculture official said on ...

A tropical storm that strengthened over the weekend made landfall as a typhoon in the northern Philippines, as the country grapples with millions of dollars in crop damage from a series of relentless ...

The Philippines is set to be drenched by its fourth storm in just over a month, which threatens to add to a growing tally of crop losses that total at least 11.5 billion pesos ($197 million) this year ...

MILAN (Reuters) - The typhoon that hit the Philippines has caused crop losses worth $110 million and inflicted damage to the agriculture sector of more than twice that figure, preliminary estimates ...

The Philippines and Japan are recalibrating their agricultural partnership to include fisheries and advanced technology ahead ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines should expand its adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops to strengthen the agriculture sector, particularly by introducing bio-engineered high-value crops ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A new Cornell University-led project will accelerate the application of a proven biotechnology to enhance food and nutritional security in Bangladesh and the Philippines while ...

At head of title: Republic of the Philippines. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Bureau of Plant Industry, Manila. siris_sil_242765 ...