The Aquino administration has imported an alarming 2.1 million metric tons (MT) of rice this year alone that would reduce prices of farm-gate palay (unhusked rice) to the detriment of farmers, lawmakers said on Friday.

Party-list Representatives Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate made the warning in House Resolution 2231, which calls on the House Committee on Agriculture and Food and the Special House Committee on Food Security to conduct a joint inquiry, in aid of legislation, into the excessive importation of rice by the National Food Authority (NFA) Council.

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