Price ceiling sa bigas, epiktibo na ngayong araw | UB
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Transcript
00:00 We will now start the prize-sealing of rice. We will now call on the founder of the Philippine Rice Industry Stakeholders Movement, Rowena Sadikon. Good morning.
00:10 Good morning to you and to our listeners and viewers of your program, Ulan Jiget.
00:19 Thank you. How is your monitoring of the prize-sealing that is being held today?
00:27 We are all busy in monitoring and to make sure that more retailers can participate in our EO39.
00:43 But given the limited time, we will also do our best to participate in this.
00:55 What information did you receive? More retailers stopped selling or followed?
01:01 We cannot say what the situation is.
01:07 But this scheme, like P41 per kilo regular and P45 per kilo well-milled, is that correct?
01:17 Even though they bought higher quality rice?
01:22 It's higher. As you said, the past weeks, the price of rice is higher.
01:36 Our retailers and producers are there. The price of rice we bought is higher.
01:44 Why didn't the producer or trader go first, instead of the retailer?
01:52 We don't know why this is happening. Supposedly, the whole value chain is affected.
02:01 It's not just the retailers. We just want to explain and our public can understand that this is affected.
02:10 Usually, it comes from the price of rice or the price of rice harvested by the retailers.
02:25 Now, since the price is given by the price cap, we will do a price-replacement.
02:35 However, because of this sudden situation, we don't have enough time to do this.
02:43 We are hoping that this will be lowered because of the increase in prices this September and August.
02:57 But I think this is a trap for the retailers. Isn't it?
03:06 It's saddening. As I said, it's not just the retailers.
03:12 But Ma'am Rowena, the premise of the government here, that's why it was implemented, is that the businessmen are being forced to do it.
03:22 The retailers are not being forced because you are the last one in the supply chain. You will be the last one to sell.
03:32 If someone is being forced, why didn't you just force them? Do you believe that someone is being forced because of the price of rice?
03:40 I hope that the price and the dynamics of rice should be understood, from the purchase of rice to the...
03:55 To understand, it's not instant that the rice will reach our retailers and our consumers.
04:11 There are many factors that happened. Maybe we don't have time to discuss all of these things.
04:20 This is already a hot topic. Even if we say that we cannot do anything about it, there are outside factors, too many factors that happened
04:33 in the past. This is why we are here. But we understand that this is the directive of our President.
04:44 Until when should the price cap be implemented?
04:48 I hope it will not be implemented soon so that there will be normality in our rice industry.
04:58 Instead of that, we need to secure our rice, our rice supply, food security.
05:08 In these events, there are abnormal things happening. I hope that the rice supply will be normal.
05:25 Will you not be able to supply rice to Catiwa? It's better... you volunteered for that, right Ma'am Rowena?
05:31 Yes. Actually, we volunteered. She did not push through on the many things that need to be done, memo or memorandum of agreement.
05:47 I hope that this will be fixed as soon as possible.
05:54 It's sad when a retailer loses money and closes down, we cannot eat. Everyone is hungry.
06:02 If they have a small business and their business is small, it's a waste if they started this.
06:11 If they lose money, they will not be able to do this. They might close down. I hope this situation will be mitigated so that this will not happen.
06:22 Thank you President and Founder Rowena Sadikon. Be careful.
06:25 Thank you.
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