CL has enough rice
As of their latest inventory, Crisostomo said total rice stocks for the region, including US rice, commercial rice and household stocks, have reached 5,724,0Central Luzon consumers need not worry of any impending rice shortage for the National Food Authority has enough buffer stock for the next 82 days, a top regional official said here on Friday (May 2).
“There is no rice crisis in Central Luzon as NFA rice remains pegged at P18.25 per kilo,” said NFA Region 3 director Nicolas Crisostomo.
64 bags.
He said this total volume has been allocated to the region’s seven provinces with Bulacan getting 1,475,175 bags, Pampanga and Nueva Ecija 1,273,599 and 1,069,177 bags, respectively; Tarlac 995,747 bags; Zambales 417,371 bags; Bataan, 302,121 bags; and Aurora, 170,874 bags. Nueva Ecija, the country’s rice granary, enjoys a huge 66-percent surplus going into this year’s dry-crop harvest season.
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