DAGUPAN CITY –– Some 100,000 bags of rice allocation for the National Food Authority (NFA) in eastern and western Pangasinan will be delivered to the province next month.
Dionisio Rivera, manager of NFA eastern Pangasinan, confirmed during the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas forum here on Thursday that the NFA warehouses in eastern and western Pangasinan will each receive 50,000 bags of imported rice from the 280,000 bags first batch delivery.
Rivera said the imported rice will come from Vietnam and Thailand.
He admitted that the supply will only last seven to eight days considering the consumption requirement of the entire province.
“But, we have enough supply because we produce rice in our province, we even sell our surplus to neighboring provinces,” Rivera said.
He added that the price of the NFA rice, which will be sold in the market, will range from PHP27 to PHP32 per kilogram.
The NFA is now processing the accreditation of rice outlets, which are intending to sell NFA rice.
“We hope that the supply will benefit those who are really in need or the indigent families,” Rivera said.
NFA Pangasinan’s buffer stock started dwindling since last quarter of 2017. (Hilda Austria/PNA)
