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LTO to provide assistance to rice delivery trucks nationwide

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February 6, 2025

PNA

MANILA – Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief, Assistant Secretary Vigor Mendoza II, has ordered the agency’s executives to provide assistance to cargo trucks delivering rice across the country.

In a statement on Wednesday, Mendoza said the assistance aims to ensure “unhampered and smooth” national government intervention through the delivery of rice supply to various areas in the country, particularly those experiencing a shortage or increase in prices.

“We will make available some of our personnel to escort cargo trucks that would be tapped to deliver rice from the point of origin to the point of destination,” he said.

The LTO will coordinate with the Department of Agriculture (DA) and other relevant government agencies in dispatching truck escorts.

Mendoza cited the need for cooperation and coordination among all concerned government agencies to address the shortage of rice, a primary staple of Filipinos.

DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has declared a national food emergency through a memorandum to address the rice shortage and an “unusual price increase.”

The emergency declaration was recommended by the National Price Coordinating Council.

“We are ready to deploy manpower and resources to help attain the objective of this declaration because the main consideration here is the welfare of millions of our kababayan (citizens),” Mendoza said.