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(Eagle News) — Naghain ng resolusyon ang isang mambabatas na layong maitama ang direksyon ng National Food Authority sa pagbili ng palay. Ayon kay ANAKPAWIS Rep. Ariel Casilao, ikinukonsidera niya na humiling ng karagdagang budget na 10 billion piso para sa pagbili ng mas maraming pang palay mula sa mga magsasaka. Kasama din sa resolusyon na baguhin ang naunang desisyon ng NFA Council na hindi pwedeng itaas ang buying price ng palay na nanatili sa […]
(Eagle News) — Complaints for technical malversation and graft have been filed against high-ranking officials of the National Food Authority. The complaints filed by Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura against NFA administrator Jason Aquino and Gerry Ambrosio, accounting services department manager, were for their alleged use of P5.1 billion intended as subsidy for its Food and Security Program for other purposes. According to SINAG, based on a Commission on Audit report, of the P5.1 billion, P3.01 billion […]
(Eagle News) — Plano ng Department of Agriculture (DA) na magtinda ng corn rice sa mga National Food Authority (NFA) outlet ngayong taon. Kaya naman hinihimok ni Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol ang mga magsasaka na magtanim nito at tangkilikin ng publiko. Isinusulong ngayon ng DA ang pagkonsumo ng pinaghalong mais at bigas dahil mas healthy umano ito kainin. Ayon sa mga experto isang low glycemic index food ang corn rice. Magandang alternatibo rin umano ang […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of Senate committee on agriculture and food on Tuesday, August 28 urged President Rodrigo Duterte to set a ceiling on prices of rice in the country. This came in the wake of continuous increase in the prices of rice in the market. Villar said the President can declare a state of calamity under the provision of Republic Act 7581 or the Price Act that could control and stabilize […]
(Eagle News) — Dumating na sa zamboanga port ang 110,000 sako ng bigas. Sinabi ni National Food Authority (NFA) Spokesman Rex Estoperez, na naipakalat na rin ang tig-10,000 sako ng bigas ng NFA sa Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi at nasa 20,000 na sako naman ng bigas sa Zamboanga, Sibugay. Payo ni Estoperez sa publiko, huwag ng maghanap ng maputi at murang bigas sa palengke dahil ang commercial rice na nabibili ngayon ay galing na sa mga […]
(Eagle News) — In these pictures taken by Eagle News correspondent Rebert Soriao in Legazpi, people are seen lining up to buy National Food Authority rice priced at P32 per kilogram. Each person is only allowed to purchase three kilograms of the cheap rice.
(Eagle News) — Resign. Senator Bam Aquino reiterated this to National Food Authority administrator Jason Aquino and other NFA officials, following the alleged rice crisis in Zamboanga that led to an increase in the prices of the staple food. “Mahiya naman sila (NFA) sa taumbayan at mag-resign na. Dahil sa kanilang kapalpakan, nalulunod ang mga pamilyang Pilipino sa taas ng presyo ng bigas,” the senator said in a statement on Thursday, Aug. 23. Aquino asked the […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The National Food Authority is under fire from some legislators following the alleged rice crisis in Zamboanga that saw a whopping increase in the prices of the staple food. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said the NFA as a whole “has become a liability to the government,” noting the drop in its revenues “every year.” He said that from the P29.3 billion it earned in 2016, its earnings dropped to P17.93 […]
(Eagle News) — Ininspeksyon ng National Food Authority (NFA) ang ilan sa pangunahing palengke sa Quezon City gaya na lamang ng Commonwealth Market kaninang umaga, pagkatapos na maibalik sa merkado ang mas murang imported NFA rice. Kasama sa nag-ikot si NFA Administrator Jayson Aquino sa mga tindahan ng bigas sa Commonwealth Market naabutan pa ang ilang mga mamimili na 27 pesos na variant ng NFA rice ang piniling bilhin. Naging positibo naman sa mga mamimili […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi magtataas ng presyo ng bigas ang National Food Authority. Ayon kay NFA Spokesperson Rex Estoperez, ang presyo ng NFA rice ay mananatili sa 27 at 32 pesos kada kilo, batay na rin sa direktiba ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na huwag magtaas ng presyo ng bigas na galing sa ahensya. Sa ngayon, pinaghahandaan na nila ang panahon ng tag-ulan dahil kinakailangan nilang punuan ang buffer stock na magagamit sa mga apektado ng […]
(Eagle News) — The National Food Authority (NFA) said it will start the distribution of the imported rice from Vietnam in public markets. NFA Spokesperson Rex Estoperez said 222,000 sacks of NFA rice have already been delivered in Subic Port. An additional 100,000 sacks of rice werealso delivered in Surigao. Once the unloading of imported rice is finished, some of the imported rice will be delivered in Bataan, Pampanga and Zambales markets, Estoperez said. The […]
(Eagle News) — The National Food Authority on Monday, May 28, said the prices of its imported rice that will be delivered to markets by June 5 will remain unchanged. In an interview over Radyo Agila, NFA spokesperson Rex Estoperez said the P27 up to P32 per kilo price range was in compliance with a directive from President Rodrigo Duterte. He made the statement amid the rising prices in commodities which critics attribute to the […]
