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DA targets 84% rice self-sufficiency by 2026
The Philippine Star
|October 12, 2025
The Philippines is projected to produce enough rice to meet 84 percent of its domestic demand by the end of next year, according to a high-ranking official of the Department of Agriculture (DA).
File photo shows a farmer harvesting rice.
Agriculture Assistant Secretary U-Nichols Manalo said the country is currently hovering around a 77-percent level of rice self-sufficiency.
“If the budget will be given to us, it will be around 84 percent level of sufficiency at the end of 2026,” Manalo told lawmakers during the budget hearing of the government agency for 2026.
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