00:00The second hearing of the House Kinta Committee or Murang Pagkain Suport Committee was held
00:05where some traders agreed that they can see the reasons of the congressmen
00:10even though the price of rice in the market is not going down.
00:14The solution there is for the legislators to implement it.
00:17Mela Alesmora was in the center of the news, live.
00:21At this point, the hearing of the House Kinta Committee or Murang Pagkain Super Committee
00:30on issues related to food continues.
00:32On this day, the legislators noticed the talks about the price of rice.
00:39It was past 9 a.m. when the second hearing of the House Kinta Committee or Murang Pagkain Super Committee
00:47led by the House Race and Means Chair, Joey Salceda.
00:51For this day, the committee noticed the issues related to rice and the ways to lower its price.
00:59In the discussion, the congressmen pointed out why there is still not a big decrease in the price of rice
01:06even though the price of imported rice is going down.
01:09It was noted by some legislators that there is a dispute between rice importers and traders that rice should be imported.
01:17The congressmen also urged the concerned government agencies to look into the issues
01:23to lower the price of rice, especially during Christmas.
01:27At this point, let's go back to the statements of some legislators.
01:32The landed cost is going down, the farm gate is going down.
01:35But why is the price of rice high?
01:37How come we cannot reconcile it?
01:40I don't know what are you reading, where are you getting all your figures.
01:44Our figures are different.
01:46And this is the reason why we have this Kintakom because we're looking for ways.
01:52We want figures that can be felt at the bottom.
01:56That's what we want.
01:58At this point, the interpellation of legislators continues.
02:03Here in wholesalers, retailers, and others who have connections in the rice market.
02:09What they're pointing out is that especially during Christmas, the price of rice should be lowered.
02:14Especially if the supply is enough.
02:16Nayomi, in the next few days, we expect more resource persons,
02:22who will be called by the legislators to clarify the issues with rice and really solve the problems here.
02:30Nayomi?
02:31Thank you very much.
