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Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto September 4, 2023 Dahil sa EO 39, agad bumulusok ang farmgate prices ng palay mula P23 to P19 per kilo.  Kung apektado ang kalahati ng forecast palay harvest sa taong ito – mga 10 million metric tons – lugi

Press Release 13 March 2023 As farmgate prices of onion plummet, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto believes government officials can find funds for the building of cold storages with the same creativity that that they are raising capital for the Maharlika Fund. “If they boast they

Finding the “sweet spot” which will determine the right volume of sugar imports that will both protect producers and consumers must be “solely based on science and insulated from lobby and politics,” Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. Recto said sugar demand and supply forecast

Amid reports of Luzon vegetable farmers dumping their produce, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto challenged the Department of Agriculture “to buy these, truck them to Manila and quietly give them to community pantries.” “May mga pictures na tinatapon na lang ang kamatis

EXPLANATION OF VOTESenate Resolution No. 676Urging the President to Declare a State of National Calamity Due to the Impact of ASFSenate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto15 March 2021 Mr. President, my dear colleagues: Sabi nga po ng isa kong kaibigan, we Filipinos don’t say it

Trade, agriculture, transportation and police officials have been urged to jointly or on their own conduct a “field audit” on transportation issues that delay the movement of food products and make them more expensive.  Among the “road obstructions” that must be removed,

The DA budget is like a dam of water, filled with taxes people pay. But instead of a mighty river that rolls like justice, what records show is a drip-drip of releases, of slow obligation and low absorption. Third quarter 2020 ito ang resibo: Sa P60.7 bilyon na natanggap nila,

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressThird Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand twenty-one. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11511] AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10068 OR THE

The next Cabinet meeting should map out plans on how to tame what seems to be runaway prices of food, placing them beyond the reach of households made poorer by the pandemic-caused economic slowdown, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. “I think this should be on

If the DTI-attached Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) is the designated COVID-19 vaccine buyer, then it should waive its customary 1 percent to 4 percent service fee. This is not the time to reap a pandemic windfall. When private corporations are waiving fees