NFA, minamadali na ang pamimili ng palay sa mga magsasaka bilang paghahanda sa epekto ng #LaNiñaPH;
NFA, tiniyak na bibilhin sa tamang halaga ang palay ng mga magsasaka
NFA, tiniyak na bibilhin sa tamang halaga ang palay ng mga magsasaka
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00:00 Meanwhile, the National Food Authority is preparing rice supplies in front of the city of La Nina.
00:07 The agency has confirmed that they will buy rice from our farmers at a reasonable price or they will not be affected.
00:16 Clayson Fardilla is back with the Central Nabalita Live.
00:22 Angelic, as a preparation in La Nina, the National Food Authority is now allowing rice to be bought from farmers.
00:31 It is to be used as rice for the time of calamity or emergency.
00:37 The NFA is rushing to buy rice in front of the city of La Nina.
00:45 But the NFA Administrator Larry Lacson personally inspected the purchase of rice by the rice agency.
00:51 In San Miguel, Bulacan, earlier, we were able to reach two farmers who were selling rice to the NFA.
00:58 They were able to sell the rice to the NFA at a reasonable procurement price
01:04 compared to the traders who are changing the price and sometimes even selling it.
01:10 The NFA Administrator Larry Lacson said that the National Food Authority bought 3.29 million bags of rice from our local farmers.
01:22 This is 99% of the target of 3.30 million bags of rice by the agency in the first six months of 2024.
01:30 This is equivalent to 136,000 metric tons of rice or almost four days of consumption of rice in the entire Philippines.
01:40 But that is still more than enough for the National Rice Buffer Stock Requirement of the NFA under the Rice Sanification Law.
01:49 But the NFA is not in charge of this.
01:54 We are not being flooded by a typhoon that will flood the entire Philippines.
02:00 That is more than enough aside from the stocks of our households.
02:04 If we compute the 136 million kilos, that will last 35 days of consumption of Metro Manila.
02:17 In the face of the fear that the local rice prices will fall as a result of the approval of a lower price for imported rice,
02:26 the NFA assured that the agency will buy the rice of our farmers at a reasonable price.
02:33 The lowering of the imported rice price has nothing to do with the buying price of the NFA.
02:44 Even if they lower the price to zero, we will buy at the price that will help and benefit the farmers.
02:51 The rice procurement price ranges from P23 to P30 for dry rice while the price of fresh rice ranges from P17 to P23.
03:03 This is higher, Anjelique, compared to the previous buying price of rice of P16 to P23.
03:10 The NFA's reason for saying that the rice procurement price is higher is because of the 140,000+ bags of rice that the agency invented.
03:22 This has now increased to more than P3 million.