THE volume of rice imported by the country rose by 24.2 percent to 995,841.6 metric tons (MT) in the first three months of this year, according to the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI).

In the first quarter of last year, the country imported 801,732 MT of rice, according to the BPI.

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