During yesterday's review of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) by the congressional oversight committee on agricultural and fisheries modernization, Senators Cynthia Villar and Imee Marcos said they would not support the call of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to allow the NFA to import rice again.
Villar, who chairs the Senate committee on agriculture, said President Marcos must have the special power to import rice during emergency situations and not the NFA.
As chairperson of the Senate committee on agriculture for the past 11 years, Villar said she has not seen the NFA's concern for rice farmers.
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