Anti-Agricultural Sabotage Act, ganap nang batas

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00:00This is the heaviest punishment against all illegal activities that damage the supply of food and increase its price.

00:12Under the law, criminals are considered economic sabotage, such as smuggling, hoarding, profiteering, and cartels. Here is the report.

00:23President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. has already enacted the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act.

00:33This is a far-reaching punishment for the criminals.

00:38Local farmers, fishermen, and consumers should be protected against smuggling or illegal importation of agricultural products.

00:47Supply or lobbyists are involved in the time of crisis and cartels that manipulate the supply and price of products.

00:57Under this law, smuggling, hoarding, profiteering, and cartel operations involving agricultural and fishery products will now be classified as economic sabotage.

01:10A non-bailable offense punishable by life imprisonment and fines up to five times the value of the goods involved.

01:18In 2023, P3 billion was lost due to agricultural smuggling.

01:24P230 million was lost due to smuggled agricultural products in the past six months.

01:32There is no shortage of rice in smuggled products.

01:35That is why the government is not only losing from not collecting rice,

01:40but local farmers and fishermen are also being criticized for not being able to compete with cheap but illegal products.

01:49There is also a risk to human health due to the absence of sanitary permits.

01:54Every sack of smuggled rice, every under-the-table onion deal, every substandard meat sneaking past our quarantine checks,

02:04these are not just numbers, they represent lives, families, and futures that are being compromised.

02:11These crimes threaten not only our economy, but our national security as well.

02:17It jeopardizes the livelihood of hard-working Filipino farmers and fisherfolk,

02:22and it threatens the food sustainability of our communities.

02:26But the new law will end this, not just the masterminds that are being pursued.

02:32This law does not just target the masterminds, it holds all accomplices accountable.

02:38Financiers, brokers, employees, even transporters.

02:42We are establishing the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Council, which I will chair.

02:48The Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Enforcement Group will be formed to search and catch smuggling operations.

02:56Special teams of prosecutors will be assigned to investigate and quickly punish smugglers.

03:03The Department of Agriculture approved the new law.

03:07Visitation power will be given to the DA who will inspect warehouses and cold storage,

03:12where illegal products are possibly being imported.

03:15Agriculture Secretary Francisco T. Laurel, Jr. will be in charge of this.

03:19We will work harder to catch these smugglers.

03:24We are afraid that illegal smuggling will be committed because this is non-bailable.

03:34If you are caught, they will be caught. We will catch all of you.

03:37Meanwhile, the two members of Congress ratified the bicameral conference committee report

03:43of the Senate and House while amending the Rice Tarification Law.

03:47This will increase the production of rice and increase the income of farmers while lowering the price of rice.

03:55The RCEF's visa or Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund will be extended until 2024.

04:02The RCEF was increased to P30 billion from the current P10 billion

04:08for the distribution of free rice, machinery, cultivation, and loans to farmers.

04:14This is the right version.

04:17It's good that every year, the President and the DA will discuss what to do with the excess.

04:26If we have P30 billion to collect, P15 billion,

04:30it will be based on the menu of what our farmers or industry needs.

04:37It's good that the President will decide where to allocate this every year.

04:45The Department of Agriculture is giving a proposed law on the power of the Department of Agriculture

04:50that responds to the lack of supply of rice or the excessive price increase in the market.

04:56We can trigger a call for importation in case we see spikes or hoarding.

05:04I don't think there will be a shortage but I think it's more for lowering the price.

05:10The DA can intervene through that new law.

05:14Kalei Zalpardilia for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.

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