“Mr. Chair, I would like to request Secretary Dar to do investigation. This is what is happening in the field,” she added.
This was backed by Quezon 1st District Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga, who chairs the committee, and Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr. “With the indulgence of the honorable Suansing, Secretary, I had the same predicament also. ‘Yung naranasan po namin but it was part of the first batch, so siguro around March or April, first week ,” Enverga said.
“‘Yun yung mga may ganung cases na may amoy yung NFA rice. But succeeding stocks were okay naman ,” he added.“Give us the details as an entry point kasi diba ang NFA hindi na po nag-import ng bigas. Lahat po ay binili dito sa local o domestic and dapat kung maganda ang warehousing nila, walang problema sa amoy,” Dar said.Suansing, however, said that the reported smelly rice were “Thai rice” that were previously imported by the government, to which Dar vowed to conduct an investigation.
“Mayroon tayong price freeze, actually ongoing, ire-revisit namin yun at we will do what is possible,” Dar said.