CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 28 (PNA) – The
National Food Authority (NFA) has started selling rice at P 27.00 per kilo in
40 rural villages here, City Councilor Yan Lam Lim, said on Saturday.
Lim, president of the Association of Barangay
Captains (ABC), in the city’s 80 rural and urban villages, said that rice is
now displayed in NFA accredited outlets in the city’s rural villages.
He said that the program is under the NFA’s
“Bigasan Ng Bayan” which intends to cushion the impact of the rising prices of
rice in the local market.
Commercial rice in the local market now costs P
48.00 per kilo from a low of P 42.00 per kilo. “The difference of P 15.00 per
kilo of the NFA rice from the price of commercial rice is already of big help,”
Lim said.
He said that residents in Cagayan De Oro’s
rural and urban villages should not worry since the NFA has assured consumers
of ample rice supply in the local market.
Lim also directed members of the ABC to keep
close watch and be alerted of possible hoarding of rice in their respective
villages.
“We have to intensify the
surveillance in the villages in order to report immediately to the NFA and
other concerned agencies unscrupulous rice traders who hoard rice in their
areas,” Lim added. (PNA)
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