Random Facts: NFA Rice

• NFA Rice selling price increased from P18.25 to P25.00 per kilogram.

• The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DWSD) has begun accepting family access cards from the “poorest of the poor” to purchase cheap, government subsidized rice for P18.25 a kilo.

• NCR has the lowest poverty incidence in the country but 50% of GMA's NFA Rice subsidies and "NFA Rice Access Cards" are to be distributed in the NCR.

• There are longer and longer lines of people queuing for NFA rice, but the government has drastically reduced the ration for each consumer from three kilos per person to just one. And they are now even using marking systems like indelible ink, IDs and Pen tel pens to control the buying of rice, sign of NFA rice distribution shortage.

• I saw a middle class/ office clerk wearing a suit with a tie holding a bag of NFA Rice in one of my bus ride going to Bulacan.