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Philippines to stock rice good for 2 years (Oct 2011)

AGRICULTURE Secretary Proceso Alcala said the Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to store more rice grains in effort to become self-sufficient by 2013.

Alcala said the DA will choose unshelled rice grains to prolong the preservation of the stocks up to two years.

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“We will stock more “palay” (unshelled rice) than milled rice,” he said in his visit in Cagayan de Oro during the opening of the new National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse on Saturday.

Said warehouse can accordingly store a capacity of 200,000 sacks of rice that would serve as the central terminal warehouse of surplus rice and corn production of Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental. NFA-Northern Mindanao officials claimed the warehouse would also be used as storage for food security requirement of the region including Lanao Del Sur.

NFA regional director Gil Pepito B. Pacqueo said the construction of the new warehouse will help the NFA save around P4.6 million on its annual expenses in rentals for private-owned warehouses.

He said rice stocks would address the country’s rice imports.

The Cabinet member urged NFA workers to help the government and show to the President “that it is not anymore necessary to import rice.”

Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on October 18, 2011.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/business/2011/10/18/philippines-stock-rice-good-2-years-185595

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