00:00The Department of Agriculture is planning to increase the number of Kadiwa Stores that are selling 29 pesos per kilo of rice.
00:07But for a group, this is just a temporary solution.
00:10Darlene Kai learned something.
00:15Since this morning, people came to the Kadiwa Stores of Bureau of Animal Industry in Visayas Avenue, Quezon City
00:22to buy 29 pesos per kilo of well-milled rice from the National Food Authority.
00:27It started selling yesterday to 4-Piece members, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and single mothers.
00:47Aside from Visayas Avenue, Champang Kadiwa Stores in Metro Manila and San Jose del Monte, Bulacan
00:52are selling 29 pesos per kilo of rice on Fridays to Sundays.
00:57It's a big thing.
00:58What you can save in our store is only P50.
01:03How much can you save? P25.
01:07That's what I want to save for a long time.
01:10So that, somehow, we can make ends meet.
01:15In the market, like the Commonwealth Market in Quezon City,
01:18well-milled rice is sold for P48 to P50 per kilo, just like what is sold in Kadiwa Stores.
01:24According to the rice retailer, they can't afford the price of Kadiwa.
01:29I hope the price of Kadiwa will drop to P29.
01:31But if there's a market like that, and they can sell it to us,
01:35it's good because there will be more people.
01:38Cherry, who wants to buy rice,
01:40hopes that all 29 pesos of rice will be opened and that the store will increase its sales.
01:47Sometimes, ma'am, I only eat twice a day.
01:49The Department of Agriculture is already planning to add Kadiwa Stores next week
01:54that sells rice for P29.
01:57But the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Incorporated is in doubt
02:01if the P29 rice program can continue.
02:05Maybe I'm just having wrong expectations of people that the stock of rice will be sustainable.
02:17Unless the government really has to shoulder the losses.
02:23Because that rice was probably bought for P50 to P55.
02:29But the DA is against the program.
02:32Our NFA regularly buys rice.
02:36So we can say that it's sustainable
02:38because as long as the buffer stock doesn't move, they will really sell it.
02:44According to the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Incorporated,
02:47this is just a temporary solution.
02:49The long-term solution is to strengthen the agricultural sector and support farmers.
02:57This does not help in lowering the price of regular meals and well-being rice.
03:04It's better to give the tariff that can be collected to our farmers.
03:13They can buy rice for P23.
03:19For GMA Integrated News, Barlene Kaye for 24 Hours.
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