00:00The supply of rice in Cagayan province is sufficient,
00:03that's what the National Food Authority promised
00:05in the face of the upcoming sale of NFA rice by LGUs.
00:09Dina Villacampa with the national news,
00:12for Radyo Pilipinas, Tuguegarao.
00:16A big help to the National Food Authority or NFA Cagayan
00:20is the declaration of the Department of Agriculture
00:22of the Food Security Emergency.
00:24Not only will this lower the price of rice in the market,
00:28but also expand it.
00:29The warehouses full of rice were bought last year.
00:33We will start massive milling operations
00:37to decongest our warehouses
00:41because the rice is full of rice.
00:43If this is milled, there will be less rice.
00:47And to ensure that the rice supply in Metro Manila remains sufficient,
00:51the NFA will start looking for those who bought this rice
00:55by March.
00:56But the question is,
00:58will the rice supply in Cagayan not be insufficient
01:01when the rice will be sent to NCR
01:03for the declaration of the Food Security Emergency?
01:06We currently have more than 41,000 bags of stock of rice
01:13that are milled in our warehouses.
01:15So, just in case the Food Security Emergency declares
01:21or declares and implements this,
01:24we are very ready.
01:26We have sufficient stocks.
01:28Aside from the 41,000 bags of rice,
01:31there are 760,000 bags of rice
01:34that are in eight warehouses of Cagayan and Cordillera.
01:37That is equivalent to more than 4,000 bags of rice
01:41at the time of milling.
01:43These steps and preparations of the DA
01:46were only followed by the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marquez, Jr.,
01:50which gave the Filipinos an affordable price of rice.
01:53From Radyo Pilipinas Tuguegarao,
01:55Dina Tudog, Willia Campa, for Balitang Pambansa.
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