Extension of rice import quota sought

The Philippines may ask for another extension of the rice import quota to at least 2015, National Food Authority Administrator Angelito Banayo said over the weekend. "The consensus at the Department of Agriculture is to try to seek for an extension of the quantitative restrictions until 2015. I was told [by officials] that they would rather have it extended [as] there are fears that lifting it

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