President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday said the government no longer wants to wait 15 days for rice importers to
prove that grain in their warehouses was legally imported, and wants the validation process cut to seven days.
Mr. Marcos said this delay was the result of waiting for the 15 days that the law says an importer has to prove his import shipment is legal. He also ordered various government agencies to strengthen their efforts to locate and halt illegal importation and hoarding of rice. He was in Cavite to distribute about 1,200 sacks of seized rice to the identified beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program .
He said the rice distribution will continue to make sure recipients have enough supply, as well as to address the adverse impact of smuggling and hoarding. “I was really alarmed. If it were up to me, I don’t want to interfere with the market but the market is not running right because it is being manipulated by hoarders and then by smugglers. That’s why we put a price cap,” he said in Filipino.“We should not stop improving the agricultural sector, improving our harvest, cost of production, and production levels,” he said.
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