Farmers cannot be on the losing end if the national government decides to lower the price of rice, the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. said Thursday. READ:
Farmers are seeking two things—to lower the prices of rice for the consumer, but also to ensure farm gate prices remain high, PCAFI president Danilo Fausto told ABS-CBN.
“What is happening now is government intervention. can bring down as much, as low as they can, as long as the government has money to subsidize the losses. We cannot sacrifice the welfare of farmers against the welfare of consumers. It has to be win-win,” the chamber chief said. The Kadiwa ng Pasko project was designed to address inflation by providing the people with affordable goods especially during the holiday season in coordination with the Department of Agriculture as the lead agency, Malacanang said.
The President said he hoped Filipinos would support the program, which aims to effectively promote the growth of local agricultural markets. “As your government, we cannot do anything with the rising prices. We can’t do anything because the soaring prices of commodities were brought by external forces that we cannot control, but we are helping with the people’s capacity to buy,” he added.
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