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| NFA can’t give rotting rice to poor |
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| Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:24 |
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THE National Food Authority can’t distribute its overstocked rice to the poor unless there’s an order from President Benigno Aquino or the Departments of Finance or Budget. NFA spokesman Rex Estoperez said the agency is only the custodian and as such cannot decide to just give away the volumes of rotting rice. This developed after some lawmakers and militant groups suggested that the “blackish” rice should be distributed to poor families rather than waste the staple. Meanwhile, former Presidential Management Staff chief Ma. Elena Bautista-Horn urged the NFA to conduct a thorough inventory to determine the reason for the surplus in rice stocks. She said one of the reasons could be the stopping of the “food-for-school” and “food-for-work” programs. Under the food-for-school program, poor students are given one kilo of rice every day for five months, while the food-for-work program requirs calamity victims to work in community rehabilitation and reconstruction projects in exchange for rice. |
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