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October 5, 2018

Villar quizzes NFA official on budget: Sen. Cynthia Villar, presiding over the Committee on Finance Subcommittee hearing on the budget of the Department of Agriculture, asks National Food Authority (NFA) Asst. Admin for Finance Yolanda Nieves to account for the P7 billion subsidy given to the agency for this year. Nieves reported that NFA has losses amounting to roughly P3 billion. During the hearing, Villar informed NFA officials that the rice tariffication bill will only allow NFA to buy rice from local farmers for buffer-stocking and rice importation will already be privately done.

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