Something amiss in missing NFA rice

TABACO CITY, Albay: It had been a 10 a.m. habit for tricycle operator Telesforo Begil to rush to the market for a P27 kilo of National Food Authority (NFA) rice for the family lunch. In afternoon, he would buy another kilo of NFA rice for the evening meal. He has kept to that habit for almost two decades.

Any excess of the two-kilogram rice he buys for the family consumption—he has a wife and three children—would be for the next day’s breakfast.