The National Food Authority (NFA) is now calling on the NFA Council to fast-track the forthcoming rice importation to make sure that the agency won’t run out of buffer stock.
NFA Spokesperson Rex Estoperez said in a statement that NFA will ask the approval of the NFA Council, the highest policy making body of the state-run grains agency, to allow the early importation of additional rice.
Because of the typhoons, we will propose to the NFA Council if they can allow us to import in advance. Many of our crops are damaged so we have to import earlier, Estoperez said.
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