Palay Price Today in the Philippines: Per Kilo, Per Cavan and NFA Rates

Palay price right now

Dry palay, per kilo ₱23.50 Half of the reports fall between ₱22.00 and ₱24.50

Wet palay, per kilo ₱19.00 Half of the reports fall between ₱18.00 and ₱20.50

The middle of 389 farmgate reports in the app's own price records, up to October 25, 2026. Your own price depends on your province, your variety and how dry the grain is.

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Prices move every week, so treat the numbers below as a snapshot taken on 30 September 2026. Each one links to its source in the list at the end, and you can check them again before you haul.

A cavan, rice farmers' usual unit, holds about 50 kilos of palay. The rice palay price, Philippines wide, is reported each week as the farmgate price per kilo.

Palay price today: the latest farmgate average

The national farmgate price of dry palay comes out every month. For August 2026, the latest month out when we wrote this, the national average was P22.16 per kilogram. That was 29.9 percent higher than in August 2025, but 1 percent lower than in July 2026. In June 2026 the average stood at P21.78.

The gap between places was wide. Central Visayas averaged P28.07 per kilo, while the Bangsamoro region stood at P20.61. Cavite posted the biggest monthly drop of any province, down 16.4 percent to P17.16, though that is still 47.9 percent above a year earlier.

Palay price per kilo today from the NFA

The National Food Authority buys palay straight from farmers at set prices. On 28 September 2026, NFA Administrator Larry Lacson gave the rates for the wet season harvest. The agency will pay P22 per kilo for wet palay and P27 per kilo for dry palay. That harvest usually runs from September to November.

Before that, in July 2026, the DA ordered a minimum NFA buying price of P21 per kilo for wet palay, up from P17. The NFA is also moving to a purchase order system, which sets sales agreements with farmers before harvest. So ask your nearest NFA office about both the rate and the schedule before you haul.

Palay price per cavan

A cavan of palay weighs about 50 kg, so the price per cavan is the price per kilo times 50. Still, in Nueva Ecija PCIJ found sacks of 50 to 60 kg, so weigh before you agree on a sack price.

Don't mix up the two cavans, either. A cavan of milled rice also weighs 50 kg. But at the standard milling rate of 63 percent, it takes about 79 kg of palay to fill it.

How moisture, variety and grade set your palay price

Moisture: wet versus dry palay

Fresh grain from the harvester carries 18 to 21 percent moisture in the dry season. In the wet season it carries 20 to 25 percent. Buyers aim for about 14 percent. So when you dry, only water leaves the sack.

For example, 100 kg of palay at 24 percent moisture holds 76 kg of dry matter. Dried to 14 percent, it weighs about 88 kg. At the NFA rates, that is P2,200 sold wet or about P2,386 sold dry, before your drying cost. So compare every offer on the same moisture basis.

Variety, purity and the buyer

Variety counts too. In Nueva Ecija, prices for 2024 averaged P24.69 per kilo for dry fancy palay and P23.33 for other dry palay, PCIJ reported. So see our guide to rice varieties in the Philippines before you pick seed.

Clean grain sells better as well. Remove chaff, straw and empty grains, because they hold moisture and cause hot spots in the sack. If a buyer is far away, a palay picture of a clean handful, taken in daylight, helps him judge your grain before he quotes. Finally, PCIJ found that agents in Nueva Ecija often add about 20 centavos per kilo to outbid each other. That is why it pays to ask more than one buyer.

From palay to rice: why rice costs more

Palay to rice conversion explains the gap between the two prices. At the standard milling recovery rate of 63 percent, one kilo of milled rice needs about 1.59 kg of palay. At the August 2026 average of P22.16, that palay alone costs about P35 per kilo of rice. Drying, hauling, milling, packing and store margins come on top.

Some palay ends up in packed rice brands in the Philippines. Jasponica rice, for instance, is a premium rice that SL Agritech Corporation sells under its Doña Maria brand. So when you follow the rice and palay price in the Philippines, remember they track different products at different steps.

Why palay prices rise and fall

Prices usually dip at peak harvest, when everyone sells at once. Imports matter as well. For example, imports surged after the 2019 Rice Tariffication Law. Farmgate prices then fell sharply at the harvest peak of late 2019.

2025 showed the same pull. Heavy rice imports early in the year weighed on farmgate prices, Context.ph reported. Prices recovered only a little after the import ban that began in September, and December still stayed below December 2024. So if you checked the palay price per kilo today in 2025, you mostly saw weak offers.

In 2026 the trend ran the other way, with monthly averages close to 30 percent above 2025. So plan your sale, not just your harvest. Our palay guide shows how proper drying keeps your grain sound while you wait. Also, our pagtatanim ng palay guide covers the harvest timing that protects milling quality.

anee.io helps on the selling side too. On the Solo Farmer and Farm Owner plans, its farm reports track every expense and your yield per lot. You can also log post harvest observations like buyers and prices, so next season you can compare who paid best.

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