00:00 Meanwhile, the Pinsala of Bagyong Egay and Habagat has reached almost 2 billion pesos.
00:06 In the middle of it, the President was crying. JP Soriano was there.
00:10 It's a rice field. It even became a rock.
00:16 These rice fields are literally attached to the northern Ilocos.
00:20 They are covered with rocks and have formed a river.
00:24 After flooding, the Bagyong Egay has not yet cut.
00:28 And it's the same in other places in the northern and central Luzon, like Pampanga.
00:34 170 million pesos worth of rice lands were affected.
00:41 Vegetable and corn production, almost 20 million.
00:44 In the whole country, Pinsala of Bagyong Egay and Habagat has reached almost 2 billion pesos.
00:52 More than 120,000 farmers were affected.
00:58 For now, the supply is still okay, said the President, of the Agri-Officials' office.
01:04 The supply is okay.
01:05 The only thing is that we are still looking at the agricultural inputs
01:13 to make sure that the price of rice is not too high.
01:19 We talked about preparing our buffer stocks for the coming El Niño.
01:25 Where will we buy from here locally?
01:27 If we need to import, we will import.
01:30 The farmers were also ordered to provide seedlings.
01:36 The target is to increase the production in the Philippines to more than 90% of the rice supply.
01:43 But it's not just the floods that are the problem.
01:46 The international cost of concerns is different.
01:49 We will adjust accordingly to reach the level of at least 95-97%.
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