Is Marcos admin’s P20/kilo rice push a response to failed food emergency?

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Is Marcos admin’s P20/kilo rice push a response to failed food emergency?
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Three months after the food emergency declaration, the government is still struggling to dispose of NFA rice stocks

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It appears the Marcos administration has partly delivered on its campaign promise of cheap rice — the aspirational P20 per kilogram. “The other factor na kailangan din naming gawin ito sa DA, is because of talagang punong-puno pa rin ang warehouses ng DA ng bigas at palay,”

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