PRICE CEILING SET. A store retailer displays regular milled rice sold at P41 per kilo and P45 a kilo for
well-milled rice alongside premium rice varieties at her stall in Quezon City on Tuesday, as the new price caps for the staple grain went into effect. Norman Cruz
To date, the DTI and the DA are compiling a list of the affected rice traders and retailers who will receive the government’s assistance. Gatchalian also had a meeting Monday with Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, who vowed to raise P2 billion to help augment the SLP budget for the benefit of more small rice traders and retailers.
DTI Secretary Alfredo Pascual has ordered the creation of a special task force to ensure that the mandated price ceilings on rice are enforced. She also wanted to know if rice retailers would be held liable if they stop selling their rice inventory while they have not yet received the government assistance.
In the House, Rep. Erwin Tulfo of the ACT-CIS party-list group proposed a one-peso budget for the Bureau of Plant and Industry for “neglect of duty: because it failed to prevent hoarding and price manipulation of onions
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