THE National Food Authority (NFA) is exerting all efforts to boost the country’s buffer stock to provide Filipino consumers, particularly those from the marginalized sector, with affordable rice.

Latest data from the NFA showed a total of 203,000 metric tons (MT) of 25-percent broken long grain white rice from Thailand and Vietnam have arrived under government-to-government (G to G) tenders.

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