ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug.
20 (PNA) – The National Food Authority (NFA) has received a shipment of 156,000
bags of 50 kilos each of imported rice from Vietnam, an NFA official announced Wednesday.
NFA Provincial
Manager Gaudencio Nuega said the shipment of rice arrived Tuesday at the local
port aboard a Vietnamese cargo vessel, M/V Bimaru Pearl.
“Maganda ang quality
ng bigas dahil 15 percent broken lang. We will sell this at P32 per kilo,”
Nuega said.
Nuega said 30,000 of
the 156,000 sacks of rice will be shipped to the provinces of Basilan, Sulu and
Tawi-Tawi (BaSulTa) while the remaining 126,000 will be for this city.
He said the rice that
arrived Tuesday is the second to the last shipment of rice for his office for
this year.
He said the last
batch of rice shipment consisting of 54,000 sacks will arrived next month.
Meanwhile, he said
they will flood the market with NFA rice to cushion the effect of the continued
increase in the prices of rice of commercial varieties.
He also warned
unscrupulous rice merchants to refrain from selling NFA rice as commercial rice
by mixing it with another variety.
He said those who
will be caught engaged in such nefarious activities will be slapped with
appropriate charges and sanctions.
Nuega said they have
activated a monitoring team to closely watch the sale of NFA rice in the
market. (PNA)
LAM/TPGJR/UTB
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