DA asks solons to amend RTL to allow DA, DTI to import rice | Jovee Marie N. de la Cruz
FIVE years after the enactment of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), the Department of Agriculture (DA) has asked lawmakers to introduce amendments to the law, to include “empowering” the secretaries of the DA and Department of Trade and Industry to import rice under “specified conditions.” At a briefing with the…