RICE / JANUARY 7, 2024 Rice retailers attend their stores, selling various local and imported rice varieties that retail for P40 to P64 per kilo at the Marikina Public Market on Tuesday, January 7, 2024. The Department of Agriculture will be implementing a maximum suggested retail price (MSRP) for imported rice at the end of this month, stressing that there should be no imported rice priced at P60 per kilogram in the market. INQUIRER PHOTO / NINO JESUS ORBETA
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Patien ti Bantay Bigas a pananglimlimo kadagiti umili laeng ti plano ti Department of Agriculture a mangideklarar iti ‘food security emergency’ tapno mailaklaka ti presyo ti bagas.

Iti pannaki-uman ti Bombo Radyo Vigan ken ni Bantay Bigas Spokesperson Cathy Estavillo, agingga a maipatpatungpal latta ti Republic Act 11203 wenno ti Rice Liberalization Law ket saan a lumaka ken saan nga agtalinaed ti nalaka a presyo.

Ibilangna a ti addang ket kas met laeng kadagiti immun-una a program ti DA nga ‘Sulit Rice’, ‘Nutri Rice’ ken ‘Kadiwa Centers’ a saanna pulos nasulbar ti parikut dagiti mannalon kas kadagiti pasilidad, lumawlawa a land use converson ken land grabbing ken kaawan ti subsidiya.

Patta-pattaen ni Estavillo a kalpasan ti maysa lawas iti pannakaipatungpal ti ‘food security emergency’ ket agsublinto man met laengen ti nangina a presyo ti bagas.

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Inlawlawagna nga awan ti rice shortage wenno pagkurangan iti bagas ti pagilian ta dakkel ti naangkat manipud iti sabali a pagilian.