PAGADIAN CITY – (January 10, 2019) - Robinsons Supermarket-Pagadian
partners with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Agriculture
(DA), and National Food Authority (NFA) in implementing its Presyong Resonable
Dapat (PRD) Program.
DTI
Provincial Director Engr. Al-Zamir I. Lipae disclosed that under the Presyong
Risonable Dapat program, well-milled rice will be available at Php39.00 below
per kilo. Refined sugar is also available at only Php50.00 per kilo.
Lipae added
that the program is one of the government’s measures to mitigate the effects of
inflation on food prices, and also serves as an answer to President Rodrigo
Duterte’s call to make affordable rice available by removing non-tariff
barriers and streamlining administrative procedures on the importation of
agricultural products.
Ms.
Lenoelle Anne Amancio, Manager of Robinsons Pagadian also said that their
initial 100kg well-milled rice arrived last January 4, 2019 but was sold out
within 2 days from its display.
The second
batch of eight hundred (800) kilogram well-milled rice and five hundred (500)
kilogram sugar is expected to arrive this Saturday (January 12, 2019) and would
already be available for the consuming public, Amancio said. She also stated
that their stocks shall be dependent on the market demand but would make sure
that they will not run out of it.
Prices of
well-milled rice sold in Robinsons Pagadian is at P34.00 and P37.00 while
refined sugar is at P50.00 respectively. Well-milled rice can be purchased thru
10kg bags or per kilo basis, she added.
PD Lipae
said that the PRD Program is in l;ine with the Administrative Order 13, and
Republic Act No. 7581 or the “Price Act” aims to develop, adopt and promulgate
measures to stabilize prices at reasonable levels. It also calls to “ensure the
availability of basic necessities and prime commodities at reasonable prices at
all times without denying legitimate business a fair return on investment.” (By
JONG CADION with PR from dtizds-jnl)
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