NPCC, inirekomenda ang pagdedeklara ng Food Security Emergency

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00:00The Department of Agriculture is planning to launch a food security emergency in February.

00:05It aims to lower the price of rice.

00:10This is Clayzel Pardilian of PTV in Balitang Pambansan.

00:16In the price monitoring of the Department of Agriculture,

00:19the price of rice in the markets varies from 37 to 65 pesos per kilo.

00:25According to the National Price Coordinating Council,

00:28the rising price of rice is too high

00:31despite the lowering of its price in the market

00:35and the reduction in imported rice.

00:38That is why the MPCC has recommended to the Department of Agriculture

00:43to declare a food security emergency.

00:46If that happens, the National Food Authority will allow

00:50the sale of cheap rice to local governments

00:53that can be used as aid or sold to the public.

00:57The NFA rice will be given for P36 to LGUs

01:01that can be sold for P38 per kilo.

01:05This will greatly influence the price of rice in the markets

01:08and will lower the price of rice.

01:11P3 to P5 is really possible, in my opinion.

01:14Especially now that the world prices are going down.

01:16The 300,000 tons that are in the NFA warehouses now,

01:21if it is unloaded to the public, to the consumer,

01:26it should help also lower the price of rice in general

01:32because it's an additional supply to the market.

01:35In accordance with the Rice Tarification Law,

01:37the Department of Agriculture is giving the power

01:42to declare a food security emergency.

01:45But first, Tiu Laurel will let President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. decide.

01:50We have solid data that shows that this is justified.

01:57The price of P62 should be P58.

02:03But after two weeks from now, it should be P55

02:07because the world market prices are going down.

02:09This action will also help to expand the NFA warehouses

02:14and improve the income of farmers who will buy from the agency.

02:19There are 700,000 bags of rice in the NFA

02:22that will be considered non-regular in the next few months.

02:27This means that more than two months have passed

02:30and it needs to be taken out.

02:32The warehouses are really full.

02:35So there is also that particular issue that we really have to face to solve.

02:42And we really need to sell it.

02:45On the first week of February,

02:47the Food Security Emergency will be implemented.

02:51The NFA rice will be sold first to LGUs in Metro Manila.

02:56While it is not being sold,

02:58the D.A. and the Department of Trade and Industry will monitor the price of rice.

03:04Effective on Monday, January 20,

03:06the maximum suggested retail price of P58 per kilo of imported rice will be implemented.

03:13From PTV Manila,

03:15Kalei Zalpordilia,

03:17Balitang Pambansa.

03:20Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department is not stopping its efforts to help farmers.

03:25In an interview with Mike Abilibe,

03:27the National Food Authority Administrator, Larry Lackson, said

03:31that the programs of the government,

03:34such as the RTL in providing assistance,

03:37such as distributing rice,

03:40and also providing irrigation and mitigation support.

03:44Lackson also mentioned the Agri-Puhunan and Pantawid Program of the D.A.

03:50where all the requirements are given for puhunan

03:54in planting almost no grass,

03:57and also the P8,000 per month assistance as Pantawid

04:01while our countrymen are waiting to reap the benefits in the four-month period.

04:07Meanwhile, the NFA assured that the price of rice will not go down

04:12from the local farmers in their market.

04:16The NFA is the market of their rice

04:23that the price is assured that it will not go down by P23.

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