The rice supply and price controversy has so many factors that we must look deeper into, beyond the blame game and finger-pointing that we are now seeing between the National Food Authority (NFA) and the NFA Council.

Start with this stark reality: the insufficient supply of NFA rice, the most affordable for ordinary Filipinos, has caused the prices of the grain to rise.

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