ALL sacks, no rice? In this Metro Manila stall maybe but not in Pangasinan. AL PADILLA Some 100,000 bags of National Food Authority (NFA) rice allocation for eastern and western Pangasinan will be delivered to the province next month.

Dionisio Rivera, NFA eastern Pangasinan manager, confirmed during a forum in Dagupan City yesterday that the NFA warehouses in eastern and western Pangasinan will each receive 50,000 bags of imported rice from the first batch of delivery comprising 280,000 bags.

Rivera said the imported rice will come from Vietnam and Thailand.

He admitted that the supply will only last seven to eight days considering the consumption requirement of the entire province.

“But we have enough supply because we produce rice in our province. We even sell our surplus to neighboring provinces,” Rivera said.

He added that the price of NFA rice, which will be sold in the market, will range from P27 to P32 per kilo.

The NFA is now processing the accreditation of rice outlets, which are intending to sell NFA rice.

“We hope that the supply will benefit those who are really in need or the indigent families,” Rivera said.

NFA Pangasinan’s buffer stock started dwindling since last quarter of 2017. With PNA