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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) warned on Tuesday that it could recommend the imposition of rice price caps if market prices remained high.

"Rice prices remain stubbornly high in many places," Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said in a statement, despite significant tariff cuts on imports of the staple.

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