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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Nov. 22, said the country will continue to import rice even with the local farmers’ ongoing harvest. In a speech in Sarangani, the President said this was because “the producer cannot fill up the requirements.” “It’s lacking,” he said. Duterte made the statement days after he said rice importation would be suspended to allow local farmers to sell their products without competition from abroad. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night directed Agriculture Secretary William Dar to suspend all rice importations, and to instead buy all the palay or rice harvested by the country’s farmers. Duterte said that the Department of Agriculture should buy all the palay of the country’s farmers at farmgate prices even if this would mean using up funds that would exceed the allocation for this. This is because he wants to support […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate has approved on third and final reading a resolution that allows the government to distribute rice instead of cash under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps. Twenty-one senators voted in favor of Senate joint resolution no. 8. No one dissented or abstained. According to the resolution, under the 4P’s rice subsidy component, actual rice instead of cash should be distributed to beneficiaries. Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Senate committee on […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Justice has found probable cause to charge Davidson Bangayan and several others for alleged manipulation of rice prices. In a resolution dated Nov. 5, the DOJ said Bangayan, whom it also found guilty for the unauthorized use of the alias “David Tan,” and Elizabeth Faustino used “multipurpose cooperatives as dummies in bidding for the importation of rice.” David Lim, Judilyne Lim, Eleanor Rodriguez and Leah Echeveria, the DOJ said, also resorted […]
(Eagle News) — The National Food Authority has approved that immediate importation of 133,500 metric tons of rice for the provinces of Zamboanga, Basilan, Sultan Kudarat and Tawi-tawi (Zambasulta). The move was made to mitigate the high prices of rice and to meet the lack of rice supplies in these areas. The NFA said that the first batch of 33,500 tons of imported rice will arrive between September 15 to September 30, while the remaining […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol threatened to file charges of economic sabotage against traders who hoard rice. “The moment I sense that there is an attempt on the part of rice traders to create a rice shortage I will recommend to the President the creation of a task force that would open up and inspect all warehouses all over the country and those found hoarding rice should be charged with […]
(Eagle News Service) — What infighting? President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday allayed fears there was infighting in his Cabinet. “No, there is (none)…There is no infighting, no ruckus there, no trouble there,” Duterte said in a press briefing prior to his departure to the Middle East. The President made the statement following reports of a rift among members of his Cabinet, namely Finance Secretary Sonny Dominguez and Environment Secretary Gina Lopez. Lopez had accused Dominguez of “usurping” […]
