He said the NFA should also start talking with the local rice farmers in Mindanao to buy their produce. If you go by the regions, you will know that there’s a problem in the supply of NFA rice,” he said. The depleted rice supply, also blamed for the surge in prices of basic commodities, was mainly due to the incompetence of officials of the NFA and its council. “If there’s no NFA rice in the markets, the price of commercial rice will increase because there’s no competition,” Nograles said. The region recently suffered a severe shortage of NFA rice.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 13, 2018 21:11 UTC