The Neda warns that the El Niño phenomenon, which is characterized by prolonged dry weather, is expected to develop as early as next month and threaten the country’s food production, especially of rice. | RonWDomingoINQ /PDI
The Department of Budget and Management serves as vice chair of the committee while the members include the Department of Agriculture , Department of Energy, Department of Science and Technology, and Department Trade and Industry.
He said the task force is led by a steering committee of undersecretaries and assistant secretaries and assisted by a technical working group of representatives from the various DA agencies. Given the NFA’s “budgetary constraints,” its buffer stock would fall to less than 500,000 sacks by July 2023, which would be equivalent to less than a day of public consumption, she said.
But Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, chair of the House ways and means committee, said he hoped the government would limit its imports to the lean months of July and August. Jayson Cainglet, executive director of Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura , said importation at this point was unnecessary since existing stocks were sufficient to tide the country until August.
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