DTI keeps tabs on price of rice, other basic items

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said that basic food products such as rice, noodles and breads will still be “in demand” for the next three days.

In a radio interview, Victorio Mario Dimaguiba, DTI-Consumer Welfare and Business Regulation Groups (CWBRG) officer-in-charge, said that the agency is already talking to different food producers in the country to add supplies to stores and supermarkets to meet the demands of food security, mostly of agencies like the Department of Social Welfare and Development, organizations and evacuation centers.