DTI-6 starts rice price monitoring

By Rjay Zuriaga Castor

Jul 19, 2024 12:13 am

ILOILO CITY — The Department of Trade and Industry – Western Visayas (DTI-6) said it has started collecting data on the baseline prices of rice in the region in compliance with the lowered rice tariff requirement of Executive Order (EO) 62.

'Before we implement the EO, we are still getting the baseline data on current rice prices,' said Grace Benedicto, Consumer Protection Division chief of the DTI-6, noting that they started their monitoring procedures on July 8.

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