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(Eagle News)– “Ignore” the National Food Authority Council and push through with rice importation. This was the directive of President Rodrigo Duterte to NFA administrator Jason Aquino, who has been at loggerheads with the policymaking body of the NFA over how to import the rice. The President said in a speech on Thursday, April 6, that he gave such a directive to assuage the public’s fears of a rice shortage. The NFA has said there […]
(Eagle News) — The National Food Authority Council will not be abolished. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the clarification on Friday, hours after Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol said President Rodrigo Duterte himself had ordered the abolition of the unit led by Secretary Jun Evasco. According to Roque, “It’s NFA that will be transferred to the (Office of the President) with the Council.” In a radio interview, Pinol said the directive to abolish was given by President […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to meet rice traders on Thursday. National Food Authority Council Chair Jun Evasco made the revelation during a press conference in Malacanang, where he also called out the NFA management for allegedly creating an “artificial shortage” with their statements about zero buffer NFA stocks. “The reaction to the statement(s) would eventually make traders withdraw the rice to speculate on the higher price of rice at the expense of […]
