(UPDATE) CEBU CITY — A campaign promise once met with skepticism will weigh exactly 1 kilo and cost just P20 — starting next week in the Visayas.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is moving ahead with the pilot rollout of his "P20 per kilo" rice program beginning May 1, making subsidized rice available through local government units (LGUs).

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