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TACLOBAN CITY - Regional Director Benjamin Marta of the National Food Authority has denied reports that the agency had imported too much rice and that some were beginning to spoil.

Marta issued the statement in response to President Aquino’s accusation in his State of the Nation Address that the agency had too much rice and some stocks were beginning to spoil.

He claimed the NFA stock inventory in Eastern Visayas was only 759,599 fifty kilo bags which would last only 20 days.

“This means that people here need not worry about over or under-supply of rice,” Marta said.

He added that NFA Administrator Angelito Banayo’wants to lower the country’s dependence on rice importation so that local farmers would be encouraged to grow more rice which they can sell to the National Food Authority. (Source PIA)

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