{"id":7034,"date":"2023-08-26T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2023-08-26T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T09:35:35","slug":"inept-leadership-in-da-blamed-for-high-rice-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/inept-leadership-in-da-blamed-for-high-rice-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Inept leadership\u2019 in DA blamed for high rice prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-135.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-135.png 620w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-135-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-135-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1822056\">RICE STOCKS Sacks of rice are stockpiled at the National Food Authority warehouse in Quezon City in this photo taken in 2020. \u2014FILE PHOTO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just look at the mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Friday said the \u201cinept leadership\u201d in the Department of Agriculture (DA), headed by President Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d Marcos Jr. as its concurrent secretary, was to blame for the current high prices of rice in the markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition lawmaker said Malaca\u00f1ang and the DA should stop using unnamed individuals behind the supposed hoarding and price manipulation of the country\u2019s staple food as a convenient excuse to escape accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMalaca\u00f1ang should not look for culprits elsewhere as the main culprits are within the DA itself,\u201d Hontiveros said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said while it may be true that hoarders and price manipulators were affecting the price and supply of rice, the DA \u201cshould acknowledge its central role in the alarming rise in rice prices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe DA\u2019s meddling in the implementation of the Food Safety Act slowed down rice importation, resulting in low inventories,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hontiveros, the Bureau of Plant Industry, an office under the agriculture department, did not issue a single sanitary and phyto-sanitary import clearance (SPSICs) for rice from June to December 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban, she added, was behind the \u201cpremeditated\u201d limitation on the issuance of such permits during the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was apparently among the reasons why the reserve stocks of the National Food Authority (NFA) were not enough to cover the country\u2019s demand for rice during the lean months, the senator said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hontiveros said the NFA also failed to purchase sufficient rice for the required reserves of some 500,000 metric tons for third quarter of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t trust [Panganiban\u2019s] supposed expertise on this matter and the proposal for the NFA to be the importer of rice again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSPSICs should not be used to stop rice importation as a way to supposedly protect rice farmers,\u201d she added. 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