A total of 37,000 bags of iron-fortified rice will be shipped to Negros Occidental this October, the National Food Authority Provincial Office said.

The shipment comprises the initial iron-fortified rice stocks that will be supplied to the province early this month, NFA Information Officer Grizelda Arceño told the DAILY STAR.

Arceño said the iron-fortified rice can be bought from accredited NFA retailers at P21 per kilo.

VMC still at P910;
Sagay, P930/Lkg

Raw sugar stocks ("B") of Victorias Milling Company remained at last week's bidding price of P910 per Lkg, the Sugar Master Plan Foundation reported.

But the Sagay Central Inc. sold higher, at P930 per Lkg, this week.

At the bidding held in Bacolod City Thursday, VMC sold a total volume of 25,529.52 Lkgs. It disposed 20,317.39 Lkgs the previous week.

Weekend brownouts set

A nine-hour brownout is scheduled today in some areas of Alijis in Bacolod City to facilitate a preventive maintenance work, a press release from the Central Negros Electric Cooperative said.

Affected areas under Alijis Feeder 3 are those along the Circumferential Road to Barangay Handumanan and Gimena Road, going to Grandville Subdivision and Regent Pearl Homes.

On Sunday, two 15-minute brownouts are scheduled from 7 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. and from 4:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. also to conduct preventive maintenance work for Bacolod-Reclamation 69KV transmission lines, the press release said. Affected areas are those under Reclamation Feeders 1, 2 and 3 and Aljis Feeders 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8.

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