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Palay output seen to reach 20 million MT in 2021 By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS, GMA News
Published April 18, 2021 4:52pm The Philippines palay (unmilled rice) production is expected to reach 20 million metric tons this year to mark another all-time high, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the country is likely to achieve a record-high production of 20.4 million metric tons of palay this year, up from the 19.3 million recorded in 2019. Despite the pandemic, we are slowly but surely hurdling the challenges in the implementation of [the Rice Tariffication Law] with tangible results in terms of palay productivity, farmgate price, and retail prices of rice, said Dar.
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Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Alex Nueva España/Senate PRIB/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Sotto issued the statement as he continued to question the basis of the government’s decision to reduce the tariffs for imported pork products and to increase the minimum access volume (MAV) for pork imports for a year.
“Tinatanong ko nga sa kanila, sino sa inyo ‘yong genius na nagsabi sa Presidente na dapat ibaba ‘yang taripa at itaas ang minimum access volume (I even asked them, who among you was the genius who told the President that the tariff should be reduced and the MAV should be increased)?” he told radio DZBB, a day after leading the Senate Committee of the Whole’s inquiry on the country’s food crisis and the move to open up pork importation following the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak.