DA’s incompetence and irrelevance exposed by Covid-19

On shortage of rice supply, the Duterte government’s entirely predictable reaction was to import 300,000 metric tons (MT) of rice. The announcement to import another jumbo rice shipment was without consideration of one thing. Whatever happened to the 3 million MT of rice imported in less than 10 months in 2019? Where did the massive rice stockpile go? It is only April 2020. Por Diyos, por Santo; that basic question should have been asked.

After all, those 3 million MT depressed palay (unmilled rice) prices and practically sentenced 3 million small rice farmers to death.