RICE STOCKS Sacks of rice are stockpiled at the National Food Authority warehouse in Quezon City in this photo taken in 2020. —FILE PHOTO Just look at the mirror. Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Friday said the 'inept leadership' in the Department of Agriculture (DA), headed by President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. as its concurrent secretary, was to blame for the current high prices of rice in the markets. The opposition lawmaker said Malacañang and the DA should stop using unnamed individuals behind the supposed hoarding and price manipulation of the country's staple food as a convenient excuse to escape accountability.

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