CEBU CITY – A total of 1,103 small rice retailers from 17 localities in Cebu province received P15,000 subsidy from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Rose
Mae Quiñanola, DSWD-Cebu provincial director, said the agency, along with the
Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Interior and Local
Government, conducted a province-wide simultaneous distribution of the subsidy.
“This
subsidy is given to you as a way to assist your stores and encourage you to
sell rice to the consumers based on the price ceiling order of President
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.,” Quinañola said.
Of
the 1,103 rice retailers, the western town of Balamban got the highest number
of recipients with 341, followed by Mandaue City, Carcar City, and Pinamungajan
with 159, 148, and 112, respectively.
Other
towns and cities that have rice retailers who received the PHP15,000 subsidy
were Daanbantayan (99), Oslob (45), Talisay City (42), Alcantara (36), Moalboal
(35), Malabuyoc (30), Minglanilla (22), Cordova (10), Danao City (8), Naga City
(8), Argao (3), Toledo City (3), and Catmon (2).
Rene
Velasquez, a rice retailer from Mandaue City, thanked the national government
for the cash assistance, which he said would help augment their small losses
due to the price cap imposed on the retail price of regular and well-milled
rice.
“Makatabang
kaayo ni kay mi-us-os man ang presyo. Mahal ang palit sa bugas unya naa may
price ceiling. Wa sad kaayoy stock mapalit,” Velasquez told reporters during
the distribution at the Subangdaku gym in Mandaue.
He
said he owns a rice retail store in Mandaue that strictly follow the P41 price
cap for regular-milled rice and P45 for well-milled. (John Rey Saavedra)
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