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LAWMAKERS BACK MEGA TASK FORCE VS RICE CARTELS

House leaders expressed support for the proposed creation of a mega task force to run after market manipulators and bring down the prices of rice in the country.  In a press briefing, Tingog Party-list Representative Jude Acidre, Zambales Representative Jefferson Khonghun and La Union Representative Paolo Ortega V agreed that the task force, which Speaker […]

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IT’S WRONG TO CLAIM THAT RICE TARRIFICATION IS DISADVANTAGEOUS – VILLAR

Senator Cynthia Villar defended the Rice Tariffication Law anew, as she stressed that government will appropriate P10 billion in an annual agricultural fund to help ease the effects of World Trade Organization-governed rice importation on local production. Villar said that should the Executive Department reneges on its pledge to put up the fund, she would […]