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THE government will implement various measures to ensure rice prices remain stable once the 60-day import ban takes effect next week, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said in a press briefing that the Department of Agriculture (DA) will conduct price monitoring to enforce the maximum rice suggested retail price.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aside from conducting weekly nationwide rice monitoring, Castro said the DA would also consult with stakeholders \u2013 including farmers, millers, and traders \u2013 to prevent rice price manipulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Palace Press Officer assured the public of sufficient rice supply, particularly as the harvest season starts.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPa-start na nga rin po ang harvest season. So, with that, nakikita po natin na tama po ang supply ng bigas sa atin mula sa local farmers. So wala pong masyadong iniisip na magiging problema ang DA patungkol sa supply ng bigas,\u201d Castro said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ordered a 60-day suspension of rice importation, effective September 1, in response to low prices for palay (unmilled rice).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The President\u2019s order aims to protect local farmers reeling from low palay prices during this current harvest season.<\/strong>The DA reported that bumper rice harvests worldwide, the lifting of India\u2019s rice export ban, and the Philippines\u2019 record-high 9.08 million metric tons of palay produced in the first half of the year have put downward pressure on rice prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE government will implement various measures to ensure rice prices remain stable once the 60-day import ban takes effect next week, Malacañang said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16027,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025\/revisions\/16027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}