Sen. Grace Poe —Senate PRIB Despite claims that the country's balance in the supply and demand of rice remains 'sound,' Sen. Grace Poe on Wednesday urged the government to take steps to ease price pressures because of India's decision to ban the export of rice. The senator made the call after Undersecretary Mercedita Sombilla of the Department of Agriculture (DA) assured consumers on Tuesday that the country's supply situation remained sound. Sombilla said the DA was closely monitoring developments in the prices of fertilizer and fuel, the Black Sea grains initiative and India's rice export ban, but fertilizer and fuel prices were the most worrisome.

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