No price rise in NFA rice
    Retailers want increase in allocation

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    BALANGA CITY – Prices of rice from the National Food Authority in Bataan on Friday remained the same but accredited rice retailers wanted their allocations substantially increased from 60 to 200 cavans per week.

    Eugene Sagun, one of the rice retailers at the Balanga City public market, said there was no movement in the prices of three varieties of NFA rice that were pegged at P27, P28 and P32 a kilo. “Walang pagtaas dahil subsidized ito ng gobyerno,” he said.

    A check at other rice retail outlets in Balanga showed the same costs for the NFA cereal. Sagun said that he and other accredited NFA rice retailers have the same desire to serve the low-income sector with the not-so-expensive government rice.

    “The allocation for every retailer of 60 cavans a week is insufficient. It should be at least 200 cavans weekly,” he said. A buyer is allowed only five kilos of NFA rice per purchase. Rice outlets easily run out of stocks especially those priced at P27 and P28 a kilo.

    On the commercial rice, merchants warned of an impending increase. “May pagtaas na mangyayari ng P6 to P8 per kilo in the near future due to rice scarcity,” Sagun said.

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