{"id":252219,"date":"2020-04-15T23:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T03:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252219"},"modified":"2020-04-15T23:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T03:20:41","slug":"nfa-assures-enough-rice-supply-amid-extended-ecq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/15\/nfa-assures-enough-rice-supply-amid-extended-ecq\/","title":{"rendered":"NFA assures enough rice supply amid extended ECQ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dansal said the NFA alone has rice stocks that are enough to supply the whole country for 11 days. (File photo courtesy of NFA Ilocos Norte via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The National Food Authority (NFA) on Wednesday assured enough supply of rice amid the extended Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to contain the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cKaya po natin na ma<\/em>-sustain ang mga pangangailangan ng ating mga kababayan sapagkat po sa ngayon po ay mayroon po tayong malaking<\/em>\u00a0volume\u00a0ng ating<\/em>\u00a0stockpile\u00a0sa<\/em>\u00a0National Food Authority,\u00a0at kaya po natin na pagbigyan po ang mga kailangan ng mga<\/em>\u00a0local government units (We can sustain the needs of Filipinos because we currently have a huge volume of stockpile at the NFA, and we can distribute these particularly to the local government units),\u201d NFA administrator Judy Carol Dansal said during a Laging Handa public briefing.<\/p>\n

Dansal said the NFA alone has rice stocks that are enough to supply the whole country for 11 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cKung<\/em>\u00a0NFA\u00a0po lang ang magpapakain ng buong bansa, tayo po ay mayroon po tayong<\/em>\u00a011 days.\u00a0Pero hindi naman po ganoon ang sitwasyon, kasi mayroon namang sumasagot ng<\/em>\u00a090 percent\u00a0ng ating mga pangangailangan ng<\/em>\u00a0rice consumption,\u00a0ang mga<\/em>\u00a0commercial rice traders (If the NFA alone would feed the whole country, the supply would be good for 11 days. But that\u2019s not the situation, because 90 percent of our required rice consumption is supplied by the commercial rice traders),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said the normal contribution of NFA in rice consumption is just 10 percent, but it has increased to 17.31 percent due to the Covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cPero ganunpaman mayroon pa po tayong sapat na<\/em>\u00a0stock inventory (Nevertheless, we still have adequate stock inventory),\u201d Dansal said.<\/p>\n

Dansal, meanwhile, urged the commercial rice traders to continue their importations to ensure sufficient supply in the country.<\/p>\n

She also called on the importers to sell their rice at \u201creasonable\u201d price to help consumers affected by the quarantine measures.<\/p>\n

Dansal thanked the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the hassle-free delivery of rice particularly throughout Luzon area.<\/p>\n

She said the NFA issued identification cards that can be used by the drivers and workers of the rice millers for the delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cHiningi po namin ang mga listahan ng mga<\/em>\u00a0employees\u00a0ng mga<\/em>\u00a0millers,\u00a0nag-isyu po kami ng<\/em>\u00a0ID\u00a0na mayroon pong<\/em>\u00a0seal\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0IATF\u00a0nang sa ganoon ay payagan silang makalabas<\/em>\u00a0(We asked the list of the millers\u2019 employees, we issued them IDs with IATF seal so that they are allowed to go out),\u201d Dansal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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