Tag: rice price ceiling

President Bongbong Marcos on EO 39: ‘Implementation, enforcement going as well as we can expect’

(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos on Tuesday, Sept. 12, said the “implementation and enforcement” of the mandated price caps on rice are going well. “We just had a meeting about that this morning and, so far, the implementation and enforcement is going as well as we can expect,” the President said in a Presidential Communications Office statement. According to the PCO, during that sectoral meeting,  implementing agencies of Executive Order (EO) No. 39, which stipulates the […]

President Duterte urged to implement rice price ceiling in the country

(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 […]