Scrutinize plan re-allow NFA to buy and sell rice, gov’t told

MANILA, Philippines — Three senators on Thursday said the Philippine government needs to tread lightly and carefully study plans to reinstate the mandate of the National Food Authority (NFA) to buy and sell rice. Senator Sonny Angara recalled how corruption hounded the agency when it still had the power to sell rice supposedly at a cheaper price. “We should be careful there. Alam natin [that] when the NFA was given power to grant quotas to import, grabe ang korapsyon dyan. Grabe ang kita dyan. So I don’t know if we want to return to that kind of a system,” said […]…

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