{
  "id": 10250167,
  "title": "NFA adopts purchase order system for palay",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/nfa-adopts-purchase-order-system-for-palay",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-27T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Philippine Star Business",
    "slug": "philippine-star-business",
    "url": "https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/09/28/2559314/nfa-adopts-purchase-order-system-palay"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The National Food Authority (NFA) has introduced a purchase order system for procuring locally produced palay, or unmilled rice, in the Philippines. This new system, implemented during the current wet season harvest, aims to streamline procurement and enhance monitoring of buffer stock volumes. NFA administrator Larry Lacson revealed that the agency has started using the PO system to allow farmers to formalize procurement commitments. Under this system, the NFA establishes a formal arrangement providing farmers with assured market access and predictable procurement schedules. Farmers simply need to bring their harvest to the NFA, complementing the agency's regular procurement efforts. This new system also helps the NFA efficiently plan warehouse utilization, drying operation manpower deployment, and allocation of funding. It improves accountability and traceability of transactions, ensuring that procured palay complies with quality and documentary requirements. To participate, eligible farmers and farmers' organizations or cooperatives must be included in the Registry for Basic Sectors or obtain a certification from the municipal agriculture officer. Each farmer can deliver a maximum of approximately 200 bags or 10,000 kilos of palay to the NFA, though this ceiling may change in the future. The NFA anticipates procuring about 592,000 metric tons of palay by the end of the year, significantly lower than its 790,000 MT target for 2026. Currently, the agency has only procured around 92,032 MT of palay from January to September. The remaining 500,000 MT will be purchased from the upcoming wet season rice harvest. The NFA has set a buying price of P22 per kilo for wet palay and P27 per kilo for dry palay during the wet season harvest, which typically runs from September to November.",
  "summary": "The National Food Authority (NFA) has adopted a purchase order (PO) system for procuring locally produced palay or unmilled rice, aimed at streamlining and improving monitoring of buffer stock volumes.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}