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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, Sept. 2, warned rice traders he would not hesitate to use his emergency powers if they resort to illegal practices such as rice hoarding. “I will not hesitate to exercise the powers of the President and I will ask the military and the police to raid your warehouses, bodegas. And I will just get your—subject of course to just compensation,” Duterte said in a speech prior to his departure […]
(Eagle News) — Rice traders have pledged to give at least 700,000 sacks of rice to the government to replenish the stocks of the National Food Authority (NFA) which they will sell in Metro Manila at P39 per kilo. This was confirmed by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque who also announced President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to place the NFA under the Office of the President. The rice traders promised to deliver 100,000 sacks of rice […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said that President Rodrigo Duterte wants to talk to the country’s big rice traders. In a Facebook post, President Rodrigo Duterte tasked the National Food Authority to invite the rice traders to “have coffee” with him and to discuss the situation of national rice supply in the country. “You invite them. Sabihin mo mag-kape lang kami,” was reportedly Duterte’s instruction to NFA Administrator Jason Aquino […]
