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November 26, 2018

Villar continues hearing on NFA budget: Sen. Cynthia Villar, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, presided over the Finance subcommitee hearing on the proposed 2019 budget of the National Food Authority (NFA). During the hearing, Villar told NFA OIC Administrator Tomas Escarez that under the approved bicameral committee report on the rice tariffication bill, the NFA will be limited to the procurement of rice from local farmers for buffer-stocking and will no longer have the function to import rice. Escarez said next year they have allocated P15 million for local procurement. The budget hearing was also attended by Sen. Francis Pangilinan, Department of Agriculture Usec. Segfredo Serrano and other NFA officials.

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