The National Food Authority (NFA) Zamboanga City Provincial Office, in cooperation with Grains Retailers Confederation of the Philippines, Inc. (GRECON) local chapter, has set up another mobile store through the Tagpuan Day Rice Response Delivery (TRRD) in Pangapuyan and Tumalutab islands to sell low-priced good quality rice at P27 per kilogram. More than 2,000 indigenous people, mostly from the Yakan and Sama Bangingi tribes, were able to benefit from this project. TRRD is a rice distribution strategy where NFA rice at P27.00/kg is sold directly to poor and marginalized beneficiaries, including the indigenous people at an appointed time and place, in close coordination with the local barangay.
Article Source: National Food Authority