| ONE EMPTY WAREHOUSE, out of three bodegas the PASG and the NFA checked yesterday and they’re seeing signs of rice shortage. NFA workers repack rice into one-kilo bags for retail distribution. Inset: the empty warehouse in Maguikay, Mandaue City. (Sun.Star Photos/Ruel Rosello) |
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DESPITE pronouncements by government officials that there is no rice shortage in the country, authorities inspecting rice warehouses found at least one to be empty yesterday.
Members of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) and the National Food Authority (NFA) inspected three warehouses of rice traders yesterday. They found one, which has a capacity of 50,000 sacks, empty as of noon yesterday.
NFA 7 senior investigator Emmanuel T. Benjamin Sr. said there are rice stocks but these are “scarce and not enough.”
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