State-run National Food Authority (NFA) has instructed its regional offices to intensify palay (paddy or unmilled rice) procurement as major rice-producing provinces starts early harvest.

NFA Administrator Orlan Calayag said that rice farmers in Western and Eastern Visayas, Western and Southern Mindanao, and in Cagayan Valley have started the harvesting of their crops.

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