CLAIM: The price of rice dropped to P20 per kilo under the Marcos administration.
RATING: MISSING CONTEXT
A TikTok post claiming a drop in rice prices under President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. failed to provide context about the rice being sold at P20 per kilo, which is only available through the Department of Agriculture’s Kadiwa ng Pangulo (KNP) marketing initiative, and in selected KNP centers.
The post shows that the price of rice during the Marcos administration went down to P20 per kilo, compared with P70 per kilo during the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.
But it did not explain that the cheap rice is only offered through the “Benteng Bigas Meron Na” program in several KADIWA centers, and originally scheduled to last only until December 2025.
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