Saturday, July 26, 2008
Tarlac mill wins bid for spoiled rice
A FEED mill from Tarlac yesterday won the bidding of 11,208 bags of spoiled imported rice of the National Food Authority (NFA).
The bidding was held as NFA Cebu denied allegations that rice traders, whose motive was to sell these damaged grains for public consumption, had taken part in the bidding.
Nestor Rey Alcoseba, NFA Cebu provincial manager, said the spoiled rice can be used solely as a raw material mixture for animal feeds, as this has already been classified as “unfit for human consumption.”
Thus, Alcoseba said, the participants of the bidding were licensed poultry and hog raisers from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
He said that some bidders, though, preferred sending their representatives, who could have been mistaken as rice traders.
Although, there were 19 pre-bidding qualifiers for partially damaged rice, totaling 494,688.40 kilograms, only six were left to join in yesterday’s scheduled bidding.
These were Manuel Velasquez, Apex Integrated Farms, Pacita Yu, HPJ Farms, Barangay Feed Mills and Almosar Hog and Poultry Raisers.
The Barangay Feed Mills of Tarlac won the bidding with a bid price of P7.81 per kilogram, or a total value of P3,863,516.40.
The NFA, which required a 10 percent bidder’s bond, pegged the bid amount of partially damaged rice at P7.56 per kilogram.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Organic Process Fertilizer (POPF) became the sole bidding participant from six pre-bidding qualifiers for 877 bags or 42,715.39 kilograms of NFA’s totally damaged rice.
The POPF put up a bid of P1.638 per kilogram with a total bid amount of P69,967.80. The NFA bid price was P1.18 per kilogram.
All these spoiled rice were part of NFA’s imported shipments from Thailand and Vietnam to Cebu last year, said NFA 7 Acting Spokesman Edgar Diez. (GC)
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