“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. imposed a price cap of P41 per kilogram of regular rice and P45/kg for well-milled rice effective Sept. 5.”
What Vera Files found
In several instances, Marcos claimed his administration was nearing its aspiration to bring down the price of rice to P20/kg, despite statements from his undersecretaries in the Department of Agriculture that it was not possible within the next two years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 31 August 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 20 September 2023, 20 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- officialgazette.gov.phhttps://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/downloads/2023/08aug/20230831-EO-39-FRM.pdf
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