Different progressive groups picketed at the Department of Agriculture office in Quezon City last Tuesday, September 11, as they denounced rising prices of rice. 

RICE RALLY

Kamuning Market vendors in Quezon City show the difference and increase in the price of rice vartieties and other merchandize a as the Philippine Statistic Authority reported inflation unexpectedly accelerated last month.

UPSURGE

If DA and DTI both refuse to properly address the queries, the Eastern Visayas public might see this as a delaying tactic while they are still trying to come up with “excuses”, more than explanations, as to the actual implementation of the EO.


SILENT TREATMENT

Price cap on rice

Rice retailers in Laguna province facing financial ruin due to the imposition of price ceilings in their products believe that the national government should have focused on the issues of alleged hoarding and profiteering of rice wholesalers.


BAND-AID SOLUTION?

At the Marikina Public Market today, September 7, tomatoes are priced at a remarkable P300 per kilogram. 

PRICEY TOMATOES

Farmers from different regions of the country were happy with the increase in the buying price of the National Food Authority at the farmgate of P16 to P19 per kilogram for fresh palay and P19 to P23 for dry palay.


Farmers happy with NFA higher buying price

There is still a chance that the P20 per kilo of rice could be realized, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday, pointing out that once the agriculture sector and the cost of production in the country would become stable and normalize, the goal would be reached. 


P20 per kilo of rice still attainable, says PBBM

Forced to sell below capital

'While Romualdez said he is studying and eyeing to aid retailers affected by the price adjustments, until then, small time rice retailers would have to come up with solutions to their dilemma.'


BAD FOR BUSINESS

Rice retailers from various regions across the country convene at the National Food Authority Central Office on Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, on Thursday, September 7, following the implementation of Executive Order No. 39 imposing mandated price ceilings on rice to combat hoarding, profiteering, smuggling, and cartelization.

MANDATED RICE PRICING

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'[T] he path to recovery is challenging. It involves assessing farmers' intentions and dedication. Requests for seedlings are carefully evaluated based on factors like the farmer's commitment and available planting areas.'

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