MANILA is tapping the private sector for the importation of additional rice stocks after the National Food Authority (NFA) failed to acquire its projected rice reaquirement for the lean season.

This developed after Friday’s government-to-government tender was undersubscribed when the NFA received only Vietnam’s offer to supply 150,000 MT of rice, short of the 250,000 MT rice procurement target.

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