01:00This will be the first case under our new Anti-Agricultural Sabotage Act, our new law,
01:13to strengthen the sanctions against those who try to enter the country without paying their duty,
01:22without paying, they are smuggling agricultural goods.
01:26The market is being destroyed here in the Philippines, people are making a living,
01:31no one is giving back to the government, and those who should be paid by the government are just being swindled.
01:39Then we cannot control how they will be released,
01:43because we have seen, this is also included in other agricultural products,
01:49that even if they are able to import it cheaply, they are being tied up first before raising the price,
01:54before being released to the market.
01:57This is the whole chain that we need to break.
02:03If we give each family, no, each person, if we give one kilo,
02:11we can give one kilo to 580,000 people.
02:18That is what we will do, and we will give it to the evacuation centers, to the hospitals,
02:26we will give it to our homes, to the Bucor, all of it,
02:32correct, to the Bucor, so that it will not go to waste,
02:36because there is an inspection, this inspection is safe for human consumption,
02:43so as long as possible, we will distribute it so that it will not go to waste,
02:48and our countrymen can use it.
02:52That's all, and I hope that this is the first of many operations such as this,
02:58because this is very, very important,
03:01and we need to control, we need to supervise our food supply.
03:09If we continue to do this, we will not be able to do it.
03:13That's why we enacted into law the Anti-Agricultural Sabotage Act.
03:23So that's what, now we will proceed to the SWD distribution
03:29together with the local government of Manila.
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