The government’s P20 per kilo rice program will be available to fisherfolk and fish port workers on August 29. Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said the subsidized rice will be available in the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority’s (PFDA) ports. “This will be sold nationwide in the government’s fish ports […] and can be purchased by fishermen and fish port workers,” Laurel said in an interview with DWIZ on Monday.

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