FILE PHOTO: Thousand sacks of rice stored in a warehouse.
MANILA, Philippines — The National Food Authority (NFA) Council has tasked the National Food Authority to start the process of procuring 250,000 metric tons or 5 million sacks of rice through importation.
This will serve as a buffer stock of the agency.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said that President Rodrigo Duterte presided the council meeting on Monday and directed it to ensure that rice crisis in 2008 will not happen again.
Piñol said that this is the right time to import rice because farmers have already finished their harvest.
The Secretary added that the imported rice will arrive in 45 days.
Meanwhile, the President has ordered the council to set a meeting between him and the rice traders to discuss the rice supply in the country. — UNTV News & Rescue
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