PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 21 (PNA) -– The National Food Authority (NFA) has
received a shipment of 55,000 sacks of rice of 50 kilos each imported from
Vietnam, an NFA official announced Thursday.
NFA-Pagadian
City-Zamboanga del Sur Manager Nieves Toca said the imported rice arrived here
Wednesday from nearby Zamboanga City.
Toca said the rice
shipment that arrived here Wednesday was the second allocation of imported rice
her office received for this year.
Toca said they expect
that the remaining imported rice allocation of 21,000 sacks to arrive here in
September. A total of 81,000 sacks of rice have been allocated for her office.
She said the imported
rice is 15 percent broken but of good quality. The rice will be distributed to
NFA-accredited outlets and will be sold at P32 per kilo to the consuming
public.
“We have 30 NFA rice
outlets in Agora Public market in this city alone,” she said.
Meanwhile, she
disclosed her office has a buffer stocks for emergency purposes consisting of
33,185 sacks of palay, 1,132 locally-produced rice and another 37,595 sacks of
imported rice “in our bodega (warehouse).” (PNA)
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