Farmers see no improvement in farmgate price of palay after 3 weeks of rice import freeze - BusinessWorld Online

Farmers see no improvement in farmgate price of palay after 3 weeks of rice import freeze - BusinessWorld Online

THE FARMGATE PRICE of palay (unmilled rice) has not improved despite a 60-day ban on rice imports which had been designed to provide relief for rice cultivators, a farm industry group said. Jayson H. Cainglet, executive director for Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura, said farmgate prices remain at P10-P12 per kilogram of palay. In Tarlac, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, La Union, Bulacan, and Isabela, prices have even  gone down to P8 per ki…