00:00Malacanang insisted that the government should continue to support the needs of Filipinos, especially in terms of food.
00:07The administration is also continuously working to increase the number of investors in the country.
00:12Clayzel Pardilian of PTV Manila with the country's latest news.
00:18The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. insisted that the continued delivery of programs
00:25aimed at providing sufficient food to the poorest of Filipinos,
00:31who are among the 300,000 households, or equivalent to 1,500,000 individuals,
00:37who receive P3,000 a month for food.
00:42Aside from that, we still have the DSWD program.
00:48This is the No Hunger Project Cuisinero Cook-off Challenge
00:55to improve public nutrition.
00:58We also have the No Hunger Project that provides eligible families with electronic benefit transfer.
01:05This is P3,000 monthly food credits.
01:09The government is now studying the report of social weather stations
01:14that said that the number of people experiencing involuntary hunger or starvation and no food increased by 27.2%.
01:22Aside from financial assistance, the Department of Social Welfare and Development also established
01:28the No Hunger Kitchen that provides hot meals to low-income families in Pasay City.
01:35We will study where these people who say that other Filipinos are still hungry come from.
01:46To find out where this place is and if there will be a shortage,
01:52we will be able to address this kind of situation.
01:55The Department of Agriculture is also pushing to increase the production of food.
02:01The agency raised P21 billion for the National Rice Program.
02:07Its goal is to increase the supply of rice while lowering the price.
02:12I do not see that there is a shortage of food because we have almost most of everything,
02:19especially this March, April, May, and June.
02:21The Department of Trading Industry helped to monitor and stop the increase in the price of rice.
02:29Before, the price of rice used to rise.
02:34Now, it's really gone down to P40 to P45.
02:37Before, it was P58. Now, it's not P58.
02:41The price of rice has really gone down.
02:44The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will continue to make steps
02:50to encourage businessmen to move to the Philippines.
02:55The Create More Law, which provides incentives to investors in the Philippines,
03:02also implements tax refunds to foreign tourists
03:06to encourage them to visit our country and to improve our economy.
03:11We will try our best. The administration will try its best to maintain that status
03:17or to be better than that so that we can encourage more investors to invest in our country.
03:23According to the latest Business Expectations Survey of the Central Bank of the Philippines,
03:28the confidence of businessmen under the administration of President Marcos remains.
03:34From 44.5% in the last quarter of 2025,
03:38the confidence of businessmen in the second quarter of 2025 increased to 45.4%.
03:46This is a reflection of a more active economy
03:49and a 56.4% increased business outlook for the next 12 months.
03:56It is good to see that there is still a lot of trust in our government,
04:09in our administration for investors to invest in our country.
04:15This is good news.
04:16From PTV Manila, Kalaisel Pordilia, Balitang Pambansa.
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