ILOILO CITY, (PNA) -– National Food Authority (NFA) Iloilo manager Marianito Bejimino has assured they have enough supply of rice this Christmas season.
Bejimino said that as of Monday, Iloilo city and province has 2,356,853 bags of rice which could last for 115 days based on the daily consumption of Ilonggos.
“Iloilo is self-sufficient in rice,” the NFA official said.
He also said that they expect harvest for the second cropping end of December or early month of 2014.
“Palay planted in some farms are in fact on the vegetative stage now and so there would be harvest in less than a few months time,” Bejimino said.
He said that the monsoon rains is a blessing to the rain-fed areas planted to palay.
The NFA official said that he is confident the same rice self-sufficiency is true to the entire Western Visayas region.