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Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piol said the successful campaign against rice smuggling had led to rice shortage here, sending rice prices skyrocketing to more than P50 per kilogram. «It's a good job gone bad,» Piol said. «Good job becDA execs find rice shortage caused by war on smuggling
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piol said the successful campaign against rice smuggling had led to rice shortage here, sending rice prices skyrocketing to more than P50 per kilogram. «It's a good job gone bad,» Piol said. «Good job because smuggling (of rice has) stopped. But bad because Zamboanga is experiencing rice shortage,» Piol said at a visit in Zamboanga City. «It's only in Zamboanga City that we ran out of rice stocks and, what is funny, the successful campaign against rice smuggling was one of the reasons behind the rice shortage here,» Piol added. He said, however, he was not blaming anyone. Backlash "In fact, we are happy that we have succeeded in stoppi...Keep on reading: DA execs find rice shortage caused by war on smuggling Read more