CONSUMERS can expect a P4 per kilo increase in the retail price of rice as a sack now costs P2,000 from the previous P1,850, a farmers' group said on Wednesday.

In a radio interview, Rosendo So, president of the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG), attributed the rise in the price of the grains to an increase in farmgate price of palay to P23 per kilo from P21.50 per kilo in January 2023.

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