THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) should release a supplemental budget that will enable the National Food Authority (NFA) to buy typhoon-damaged rice from farmers affected by super Typhoon Lawin (international code name: Haima), Sen. Francis Pangilinan said on Friday.
Pangilinan made the proposal after receiving information that rice farmers were forced to sell storm-damaged rice at P10.00 per kilo, or below the production cost of P12.00 per kilo.
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