Hontiveros pushes for Senate probe into PPI’s ‘sudden, aggressive’ rice importation

Hontiveros pushes for Senate probe into PPI’s ‘sudden, aggressive’ rice importation

Senator Risa Hontiveros has called on the Senate to conduct a thorough and immediate investigation into the “sudden and aggressive” rice importation of Planters Products Inc. (PPI), noting that the agency’s latest questionable moves could further hurt the country’s farmers already reeling from the impact of the Middle East war and the predicted super El Niño.In particular, Hontiveros questioned PPI’s capacity to import over 86,000 metric tons of…