PLANNED RICE IMPORTATION
NEEDS VALIDATION, REVIEW
By Manny Piñol
The planned importation of an additional 250,000-metric tons of rice for the country's buffer stocks may have to be reviewed and validated as the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) expects a bumper rice harvest this planting season.
Flying over Oriental Mindoro from Manila today to join President Rody Duterte in his provincial sortie in Socorro town, I saw vast fields of palay nearing harvest.
