‘Tariffication may lead to oversupply of rice’

By The Manila Times

Feb 18, 2019 12:02 am

FORMER Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile on Sunday warned that implementation of the rice tariffication law might lead to “over supply” of the staple that could affect local farmers.

The senator, who is seeking a comeback to the Senate, issued the warning a day after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the rice tariff bill into law.

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