Malaya Rice Project ng Kamara at DSWD, kasado na

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00:00 The Malaya Rice Project of CAMARA and DSWD is now in session,

00:04 where cash assistance and free rice will be distributed to more than 2 million beneficiaries.

00:10 Mela Lesmora is back.

00:12 To increase the supply of rice in the country and lower its price in the market,

00:19 the leadership of CAMARA has already helped some rice stakeholders today.

00:24 Here, Nueva Ecija Governor Aurelio Umali has spread some ways to increase the production and supply of rice

00:31 from his experience in their province, which is also known as the Rice Granary of the Philippines.

00:37 What we do is we have a lot of silos. Why?

00:41 Storage is the name of the game. Storage should be in the river.

00:44 So that we don't have problems.

00:46 Because if you drive and you don't move, it will be destroyed.

00:51 The rice chicken is included. The corn is what we are asking for.

00:55 That's right.

00:56 We have to integrate everything.

00:57 Let's have a strong storage facilities, the modern.

01:00 At the first press conference of CAMARA,

01:04 House Speaker Martin Romualdez confirmed that within this month,

01:08 they have already launched the Malaya Rice Project, which is under the DSWD.

01:13 He said that 2.5 million beneficiaries are expected to benefit from this in the country

01:18 and the project will start in Metro Manila.

01:21 Under the program, each beneficiary will receive P1,000 cash assistance and 15 kilos of rice,

01:28 which is worth P500 to P600.

01:32 This will take, the whole process to do this for the whole NCR will be less than a month.

01:39 And this will be just the first round.

01:41 And once it is successful, and I'm confident that it will be,

01:46 because we will be doing this with the 33 congressmen in the DSWD,

01:50 and it's not dissimilar from the payouts of the IAEX or the Tupad or the MAEPS.

01:55 We'll be able to replicate this and do further successive rounds of this.

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