When the rice czar fails his mandate…

As one of the government agencies with the most crucial impact, real or psychological, on national life, the National Food Administration (NFA) should take extra care in declaring anything that implies threat to rice supply and price stability in the country.

Unless a real, nationwide supply crisis warrants an urgent need for additional import of the grain, the NFA administrator must not make any public statement that might be misconstrued to mean rice supply in the country is, indeed, running out in two days.