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00:00President Bongbong Marcos supported the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture

00:05to declare a food security emergency on rice.

00:08And with this, the price of rice in the market will be lowered.

00:12Witness, Bernadette Reyes.

00:17President Bongbong Marcos himself said that everything has been done to lower the price of rice,

00:23but this is still not happening.

00:25That is why, just now, the President was asked to support his recommendation

00:29to declare the Department of Agriculture a food security emergency on rice.

00:34Well, we are still waiting for the recommendation of the Price Coordinating Council,

00:40but maybe next week, the DA will formally accept his recommendation.

00:47And the recommendation, I believe, is going to be to declare an emergency.

00:51When a food security emergency is declared,

00:54the National Food Authority can issue a buffer stock of rice

00:58and will add to what is being sold in the market.

01:01When this happens, the price of rice will be lowered.

01:05The reason that we are doing this is we have done everything to lower the price of rice,

01:11but the market is not being allowed to work properly.

01:17The demand and supply curve is not being followed because until now,

01:23even if you lower all the inputs, the sales are still high.

01:27And so we have to force that price down and we have to make sure that the market works properly.

01:33According to the NFA, around 700,000 bags of rice are in their warehouse right now.

01:39In addition to this, the impacted rice is still not yielding.

01:43If we are able to full blast, if we are able to heal all of that,

01:48the whole country will have around 5.7 million bags.

01:54Now, for calamities, we know that we will not be able to get rid of it,

02:01we will calculate what we will release.

02:04We will not release all of it.

02:08Our Kadiwa Kiosk is already there.

02:10This is one of the plans.

02:11All of the former retailers of the NFA,

02:14the latest accredited retailers,

02:19they will be the first to be affected if this will be lowered.

02:24Another program of the Department of Agriculture is also continuing

02:27so that there will be enough rice.

02:30Here in Murphy Market in Cubau, Quezon City,

02:32the price of rice for all has been lowered to Php 38 per kilo since today.

02:37This is what the rice looks like up close.

02:39This rice is 25% broken.

02:42This means that 25% of the bottles are broken.

02:45Aside from that, they are also selling solid rice here.

02:50This is the 100% broken rice.

02:53For us, it's hard.

02:55For us, it's on budget.

02:59In Pasay City Public Market, Php 38 per kilo of rice will also arrive today.

03:04It's good, it's expensive, and it's cheap.

03:07This is our bestseller here.

03:10The Department of Agriculture also ensured that the supply of cheap rice is sufficient.

03:14For GMA Integrated News, Bernadette Reyes, your Saksi.

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