00:00 It seems that the saloop of some retailers is almost full
00:04 for three days, the price cap or limitation of the price of rice is already lost.
00:10 The help to them, including to the sarisari stores, is a weekend,
00:15 possibly, it will be divided.
00:17 Mackie Polido is back.
00:19 The Arnold family has been selling rice for 50 years.
00:25 But now, they have no rice to sell in their place in Anonas Public Market, Quezon City.
00:30 The payment to them by the wholesaler is just right in the price cap.
00:34 P41 per kilo for the regular milled, P45 for the well-milled.
00:39 I will still be able to feed our children.
00:44 It will not increase, ma'am.
00:45 The DTI will come here.
00:48 In a rice retailer in Muntinlupa, they already put that they are in loss
00:52 in the rice they are selling.
00:53 We are in loss.
00:55 That's why we have put a maximum of P1 per person.
01:01 Because it is limited, so we can give everything.
01:05 The P15,000 aid for the small rice retailers
01:10 can start giving this weekend in Metro Manila,
01:13 according to the Department of Trade and Industry.
01:15 The recipients no longer need to submit.
01:18 As long as the retailers are registered with the Rice Retailer Association or LGU, they can give.
01:23 Including the rice retailers who are selling rice.
01:27 Because if you compute, imagine you're talking about more than 50,000 retailers,
01:35 then you ask for receipts, how much they bought.
01:39 Earlier, the DTI helped the Grain Retailers Confederation of the Philippines for this.
01:45 But the retailers are worried.
01:47 If it won't reach, especially for the small retailers,
01:51 it will be just 2-3 days.
01:53 According to the DTI, the government will look into it for 2-3 weeks
01:58 if the price cap can be lifted.
02:00 The market prices should be stabilized.
02:04 Then, the President will recommend a price account to be lifted.
02:09 It's saddening, according to Bantay Bigas,
02:11 that the retailers were given aid first, instead of the farmers.
02:16 We've been calling for 15,000 as support subsidy
02:20 to increase their production.
02:24 According to the Department of Agriculture,
02:26 95 percent of the compliance is with the price cap.
02:29 But in some places where it's being sold, the rice is yellow or crushed.
02:33 That's why Rodel, who has a small rice mill,
02:36 still buys premium rice for P52 per kilo.
02:40 Aside from being crushed, it still has a smell.
02:44 According to the DA, they should be told if they see rice
02:47 that doesn't look good and is being sold under the price cap.
02:51 For GMA Integrated News, Macky Pulido reporting for 24 Hours.
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