Hontiveros to economic managers: Justify need to raise rice buffer stocks

“The problem is the poor people have no means to pay,” the legislator pointed out.

“The violence in Kidapawan should never happen again just because we don’t want to open the warehouses to those who are hungry,” Hontiveros said. Hontiveros took note of reports that sanitary and phytosanitary clearances had already been issued for over three million metric tons of rice imports of the private sector.

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Hontiveros: Econ managers must ‘rigorously justify’ raising rice buffer stocksSenate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday questioned the government’s plan to raise the stock of rice in National Food Authority warehouses, saying it should instead prepare social protection programs for Filipinos ahead of the El Niño season this year.
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