[caption id="attachment_208178" align="alignleft" width="130"]RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO[/caption]

AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel Piñol recently claimed that the rice shortage in the Zamboanga, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-tawi area was due to the clampdown on the smuggling of the grain from Vietnam and Thailand through two Sabah ports.

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