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As it grapples with ways to satisfy the “unli-rice needs” of 106.5 million Filipinos, the government should see to it that the solution should not further bloat the P172 billion liabilities of the National Food Authority, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. “The

About 17 percent of palay harvest is lost to absent or poor post-harvest facilities and practices yearly, resulting in a wastage of about two and a half million metric tons of rice—enough to meet the annual rice needs of Metro Manila, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto

The quarter of a million Filipinos in Kuwait sent home P40.6 billion last year, an amount which, if they were a company, would have ranked them the Philippines’ 37th biggest in terms of gross revenues, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. If you add up their remittances

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto hailed President Duterte’s signing on Feb. 2 of the Free Irrigation Law, saying it should “open the floodgates of an irrigation building spree, which is needed for us to feed our growing number of people.” Republic Act 10969 grants free

Saying that the “law is in the details,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today pressed the government to submit “the economic fine print” that will underpin the proposed Bangsamoro government’s fiscal autonomy. In a request coursed through Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, Recto

Statement of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto I support President Duterte’s pivot in Benham Rise. With the West Philippine Sea effectively fenced off, we have to look to the “east Philippine seas” for our food and fuel. If there’s an impregnable Great Wall of Sand from

The Department of Health has a P634 million advertising budget for this year, “which it should use to fight the fake news that all vaccines are bad.” The suggestion was made by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, who said that the DOH’s “advertising war chest” is big enough

The Department of Foreign Affairs’ P1.2 billion help fund this year for its 8 million citizens abroad may not be enough to aid expatriate Filipinos in distress following President Duterte’s apparent “no OFW left behind” policy, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto

Mayon’s eruption has again put on full display one constant in this calamity-prone land – of schoolchildren being the first collateral victims when their schools are commandeered to house refugees, a practice which can be stopped by building permanent evacuation centers. Senate