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Cogon, Carmen vendors incur losses due to NFA rice buyers

April 26, 2008

Vendors from Carmen Public Market and Cogon Public Market are now trooping to City Hall to complain as to how buyers of rice from the National Food Authority (NFA) are now flooding their business areas and affecting their livelihood daily.

 They are now asking Committee on Economic Enterprise chairperson City Councilor Reynaldo Advincula and the Market Committee representative Vicente Demosthenes Quina to look into solving this urgent concern.

During the committee’s hearing, Carmen vendors’ president Sireno Sabardan explained how the hundreds of NFA rice buyers are blocking their members’ stalls while they wait for their turn to be given a chance to buy this subsidized daily staple.

He said his fellow vendors whose stalls and display items are blocked by these NFA rice buyers are now incurring huge losses.

“Dili na makita ang baligya ug dili na kami makabawi. Dili kami mo-abog kay mag-away naman unya hinoon (Our displayed items can no longer be seen by our own target buyers and w can no longer even earn anything even on a break-even basis),” he said.

Another vendor who attended the meeting explained that some fellow vendors are now trying to put some extensions from their own stalls but CEED officials would immediately ask them to remove the same.

Sabardan said they already tried their best to solve to this dilemma at their level and had asked the help of the security force from the City Economic Enterprises Department (CEED) but still came up empty handed.

He recalled how the CEED security personnel told him that they too are helpless on this matter as the presence of these NFA rice buyers at their market area is not illegal.

 “Kinahanglan unta magmeeting na aron ma-discussan ang papel sa matag-usa (I suggest that there should now be a meeting for us to discuss what role each should play on this matter),” he said.

Advincula agreed and promised to bring this matter up with the market committee members and his colleagues at the City Council.

Already, Association of Barangay Chairpersons-Cagayan de Oro (ABC-CDO) and City Council ex oficio member City Councilor Aaron Neri announced that the NFA, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Department of Agriculture among others are now asking barangay officials to help in the distribution of NFA rice.

Also, both the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro and the Iglesia Filipina Independente (IFI) recently voiced their willingness to help out in the distribution of NFA rice to the people in the grassroots level should local authorities request them. (By Lizanilla J. Amarga)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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