“The price of rice has not gone up since the Rice Tariffication Law was enacted in March 2019.”
What Vera Files found
The price of local rice has gone up since the enactment of the Rice Tariffication law in March 2019. For example, the prevailing price of regular-milled rice in March 2019 was at P39. This went down to P35 in December 2019, but increased to P38 by the second half of 2020 until the end of 2022, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Price Monitoring database. By August this year, the average price of regular-milled rice reached P40.5 per kilo.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Cynthia A. Villar (Senator) made this claim around 31 July 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 15 August 2023, 15 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3473681756211696
Links recorded by Vera Files. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.