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House Appropriations Committee Chairperson Davao City Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles is urging the National Food Authority (NFA) to look into what he describes as a possible price manipulation by rice traders in Mindanao as he called the agency’s attention to reports of abnormally high rice prices in Zamboanga City, where the prices of the […]
Rice hoarding is economic sabotage, not a legitimate business strategy. This was stressed by House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Thursday during the budget deliberations on the Department of Agriculture (DA) after DA chief Manny Piñol explained that hoarding rice was considered a legitimate business practice by some rice traders. “We […]