Customs seizes rice, cars worth P12M at Davao port
By Tina G. SantosThe Bureau of Customs on Thursday seized P12 million worth of allegedly smuggled rice and cars of still undetermined value at the Port of Davao.
The Bureau of Customs on Thursday seized P12 million worth of allegedly smuggled rice and cars of still undetermined value at the Port of Davao.
President Benigno Aquino III reiterated his previous announcement of rice self-sufficiency in the Philippines by yearend when he went on a second campaign sortie for the local candidates of the Liberal Party in the Quezon province on Monday.
Agriculture sector leaders on Friday said the government needs to work harder after customs officials seized Vietnam rice shipments worth P1.2 billion that were slipped through a Cebu port this week.
Customs authorities announced Thursday they had uncovered P1.2 billion worth of smuggled rice declared as stone and granite slabs in 1,169 containers from Vietnam.
At least a thousand persons barricaded Paylon Street here Tuesday morning, demanding the release of rice they accused Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon of hoarding.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in southern Mindanao has confirmed it stopped providing rice to Mati in Davao Oriental as early as two months ago.
Scientists have successfully bred a rice variety that is salt-tolerant, which could enable farmers to reclaim coastal areas rendered useless by sea water, a Philippine-based institute said Tuesday.
The Bureau of Customs on Thursday filed a smuggling case against a Cebu based trader and his broker for illegally importing rice from Taiwan worth P6 million.
To Chinese professor Yuan Longping, the acknowledged developer of hybrid rice and a 2001 Magsaysay awardee for government service, rice wastage should be condemned and must be considered a crime.
In an effort to show the public that it’s doing its job going after rice smugglers, the Bureau of Customs has been holding a supposedly legitimate shipment of rice in Legazpi City.
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in the Science City of Muñoz will host public and private players in the hybrid rice industry in the country for the First National Hybrid Rice Congress from April 3-5.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will auction off in April the 94,000 bags of Vietnam rice it seized at the port here in September last year. The smuggled rice from Vietnam is worth at least P135 million, a ranking Customs official said.
The Aquino administration goal to achieve rice self-sufficiency this year may have to wait a little longer.
