Cong. Tulfo favors placing SRP for food items
ACT-CIS Rep. Erwin Tulfo favors placing suggested retail prices or SRP on basic food items with prices that are always increasing to prevent businessmen from taking advantage of situations.
“Inaabuso kasi ng ilang mga negosyante tulad ng mga middleman o mga broker ang presyo ng ilang pagkain dahilan para surmirit ang presyo nito sa merkado o mga palengke,” Cong. Tulfo said.
“Kasi kung susuriin ng mabuti, mura ang benta sa farmgate o yung mga producer ng mga bigas, gulay, itlog at karne ng mga manok at baboy pero pagdating sa palengke presyong ginto na ito,” explained Tulfo who is running as a senator under the Alyansa sa Bagong Pilipinas.
He added, “Tumataas na ang presyo pagdaan sa kamay ng mga middleman o traders bago pa ipasa sa sa retailers na nasa mga palengke.”
The lawmaker is suggesting to the Department of Agriculture to place suggested retail prices (SRP) on basic food items with prices that are always rising such as rice, chicken, pork, fish, vegetables and other commodities.
“With the implementation of the SRP sa ilang pagkain, masisiguro nating na hindi maaring manipulahin ang presyo ng produkto,’ Tulfo explained.
In the congressional hearings on the high prices of commodities that were held during the past few months, it was revealed that middlemen and those engaged in cartel are the ones dictating the prices of basic food items such as rice.
“Ang SRP kasi ang magkokontrol sa kikitain ng mga middleman o trader o kartel para affordable pa rin ang produkto pagdating sa mercado,” Tulfo said.
The lawmaker added that once the prices of these commodities stabilize, the DA could already remove their SRPs.
