PGMA: Gov’t is working hard to solve rice and price issues
June 18, 2008
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the Philippine government is working hard to solve the rice and price issues facing the country as she ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) to improve the distribution and increase the allocation of government-subsidized rice in depressed areas in the country.
"Our efforts to address this challenge are focused on doing whatever possible to ensure access to supplies of rice and fair prices", the President said.
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap have assured adequate supplies of rice for our needs for the rest of the year from both domestically produced rice and from imports. Importation of rice will be made when prices and conditions are acceptable to expand buffer stocks, she added.
At present, legal actions are being taken against rice hoarders which include the filing of charges against 73 traders and against the regional directors of NFA of Regions V and X; the NFA provincial managers of North Cotabato, Camarines Sur and Misamis Oriental; and the Assistant provincial manager of Misamis Oriental.
The President said that the government is now focused on the distribution, supply and enforcement efforts on both fair prices today and fair prices in the years to come. The new economics of global food security now make it imperative that we control our own destiny in terms of rice.
We are taking control of our food supply. We are working with all levels of government in our country with multilateral agencies and our other development partners, and with the private sector to achieve rice self-sufficiency in five years from now, she said.
Our longer-term efforts to promote rice self-sufficiency will also ensure that we will no longer have to rely on expensive imports to meet our country’s needs for this important commodity.
The actions we are taking to achieve self-sufficiency include providing unprecedented amounts of investments in fertilizers; in irrigation and other infrastructure; in agricultural education, extension and equipment; in dryers and other post-harvest facilities; and in seeds, the President said. (PIA)
) wala akong paki sau.. better na kilalanin mo muna si atty docdoc. kung mas BETTER ka sa knya then go… may karapatan kang siraan xa.. pero kung hindi… MANAHIMIK KA NALANG!
Gov’t is working hard to solve rice and price issues - tapos arang ka mahal sa kilo nan bugas uno naman ini wya man gajud ma control nan gov’t ang presyo. Ang paliton ni saka ang presyo pero ang sweldo nan mga trabahante sa pilipinas intawon arang kaubos ra untana ma solve sab ini na problima para pantay ang ato gasto biskay pobre ra kita mapobre na pag isan.
Posted by Guest at June 18, 2008, 5:47 pm