MANILA Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Manny Piol said Monday the National Food Authority (NFA) will relax rules on rice importation, but clarified that this did not mean that licensing and accreditation will no longer apply.
Piol said the NFA’s policy-making body, NFA Council, will soon come out with guidelines on importation as directed by President Rodrigo R. Duterte, based on what is legal and prescribed by the law.
You cannot just say that NFA will have no more role in the importation because that would effectively throw away the mandate of NFA into the wastebasket, Piol said in a Palace briefing.
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