Retail rice has nearly tripled since 2000. In the years where the whole chain can be seen, the farmer received under half of what the shopper paid — and a kilo costs 30.5% more in one region than another in the same year.
A national average rice price hides two things that matter more than the average: how little of it reaches the farmer, and how much it varies by where you shop.
Retail rice per kilo, from the WFP market series. The level is the part everyone knows; the sections after it are the parts that are not in the headline.
Per kilo.
Nominal pesos, not inflation-adjusted.
In nominal terms over twenty-six years. The page does not claim this as a real-terms increase.
Farmgate, wholesale and retail for the 5 years where all three were collected. This is the single most useful thing in the dataset and the earlier version of this page did not show it.
Of the retail price in 2013.
Across every year in the chain. It never reaches half.
Added between farmgate and retail per kilo, on a farmgate price of P15.36.
Mean retail rice by region in 2025, across 83 markets. A national average sits in the middle of a spread this wide and describes nobody in particular.
Region VII — per kilo, mean across its markets.
Region II.
P13.18 per kilo between them, in the same year, for retail rice across 17 regions.
WFP tracks 5 distinct rice commodities. They are not interchangeable, and a series that averages across them moves when the reporting mix changes rather than when prices do.
Rice (special).
Rice (regular, milled).
Between the dearest and cheapest variety in the same year — wider than the gap between the dearest and cheapest region.
Local rice used to sell above imported. The 2019 tariff law replaced import quotas with a duty, and the gap has nearly closed.
Per kilo.
Per kilo.
Local over imported. It was several pesos before the tariff law.
Rice prices, from two sources, at national and regional level. The obvious next questions are not answered here.
Milling, drying, transport, credit and trader margins all sit between farmgate and shelf. None are in these CSVs, so the page reports the size of the gap and says nothing about who takes which part of it.
The chain table covers 5 years only, ending in 2013. Farmgate prices are collected by PSA and its portal is not reachable by script, so the farmer's share cannot be brought up to date.
The WFP file holds vegetables, meat, fish and pulses across the same markets — over 200,000 observations. This page is only rice; the rest is unexplored rather than excluded on principle.
Two sources, one derive step, seven CSVs.
WFP market prices run 2000-2026 and DA Bantay Presyo supplies the daily NCR series from 2018. They are different collections with different coverage and are never spliced into one line.
The WFP file carries aggregated and forecast rows alongside observations. The rice views filter to priceflag 'actual' and pricetype 'retail'; without that the series mixes measurements with estimates.
841 of 2367 source PDFs parsed — 36%. The unparsed ones are mostly a layout generation the parser does not handle, and they are listed per document with a status rather than left in a log.
The Bantay Presyo parser began as one pattern with nested quantifiers and spent 65 minutes of CPU backtracking on wide per-market rows. It now splits fixed-layout rows on runs of two or more spaces, which cannot blow up.
Five rice commodities are reported separately. Collapsing them into one national price makes the series move when the reporting mix changes.
Every figure on this page is bound to a query in facts.sql and re-checked on each build; checks.sql adds vocabulary closure and per-series price envelopes.
Every figure on this page traces to one of these, through a CSV in
data/ph-food-prices/. Each is checked against its source query on every
build.
Retail and wholesale rice prices by market and variety, 2000-2020 — WFP's market monitoring redistributed by the Humanitarian Data Exchange
Daily NCR retail and wholesale rice prices, 2018 onward — Department of Agriculture daily price bulletins; parsed from PDF