PROVING that locally produced rice could compete with imported rice in quality and affordability, a farmers’ cooperative in Dingle, Iloilo is selling rice for as low as P33 per kilo for “bahay” (old harvest) and P37 per kilo for well-polished rice.
Officials of Dingle Multi-Purpose Cooperative said they could support the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Bigas ng Masa Program which aims to provide affordable rice supply direct from the farmers to the consumers if they have enough capitalization to buy their members’ produce.
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