{"id":179720,"date":"2018-09-02T03:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T07:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=179720"},"modified":"2018-09-02T03:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T07:19:58","slug":"da-nfa-launch-campaign-vs-rice-hoarders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/02\/da-nfa-launch-campaign-vs-rice-hoarders\/","title":{"rendered":"DA, NFA launch campaign vs. rice hoarders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Identity of informants will be held in strict confidentiality.\u201d (File Photo<\/a>: Society of the Sacred Heart\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) on Saturday launched a joint campaign against rice hoarding, in a bid to help ease the country\u2019s rice supply woes.<\/p>\n

The \u201cReport a Hoarder\u201d campaign offers a PHP250,000-reward to “citizens who could provide information that would result in arrest of rice hoarders,” Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol said in this Facebook post on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

“In launching the campaign, DA and NFA expect traders to release their stocks and stabilize prices,\u201d Pi\u00f1ol\u2019s Facebook post said.<\/p>\n

“Identity of informants will be held in strict confidentiality,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Pi\u00f1ol, meanwhile, noted that rice industry stakeholders are supporting the \u201cReport a Hoarder\u201d campaign, which seeks to bring to justice the traders manipulating supply and price of rice, a staple food in the country.<\/p>\n

“The reward money will be provided by private millers and traders who said activities of hoarders affect their business,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to Pi\u00f1ol, the DA-NFA anti-hoarding team discovered stacks of premium white and glutinous rice in at least five warehouses within Bulacan province’s Marilao municipality.<\/p>\n

He said NFA will verify if the owners of the rice are amassing such stocks, saying holding on to the stocks is hoarding, which is punishable with fines and imprisonment.<\/p>\n

NFA administrator Jason Aquino, meanwhile, in a press release on Aug. 30, said they have \u201cstepped up our monitoring activities to protect our consumers against businessmen who may take advantage of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We are also monitoring its accredited retailers to ensure that the selling of rice is at government-prescribed prices,” Aquino said in the statement.<\/p>\n

NFA sells its regular and well-milled rice at PHP27 per kilogram (kg) and PHP32 per kg, respectively.<\/p>\n

The agency has earlier vowed to intensify its rice distribution activities to make the grain increasingly available to consumers.<\/p>\n

The NFA reported having 15,892 accredited retail outlets selling NFA rice around the country.<\/p>\n

Those who have information could contact the DA through these numbers:<\/p>\n

(02) 920-9117 – Office of the Secretary, DA
\n0928-611-5555 – DZRH Textline
\n(02) 8326166; 8326167; 8326117 – DZRH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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