AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel Piñol on Friday conceded that the government should no longer be involved in rice importation to ease the debt burden of the National Food Authority (NFA).

But the state grains agency should be allowed to do a final importation of the staple, the Cabinet official said in

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