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DA: Less rice imported for Q1 2025
The Freeman
|March 25, 2025
A significant drop of rice imports in the country in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period last year had been noted by the Department of Agriculture (DA).
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From January to mid-March of 2025, rice imports saw only 641,000 metric tons (MT) as against 1.2 million metric tons recorded in the first quarter last year.
Month-by-month data shows January’s volume dropping to 277,000 MT from last year’s 430,000 MT, February’s declining to 267,000 MT from 342,000 MT, and just 97,000 MT recorded in the first half of March --a sharp decrease compared to the 415,000 MT imported in the entire March of 2024, the DA said
This story is from the March 25, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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