Three shipments of Vietnam rice with a total of 91,000 bags arrived in Negros Oriental in October, the National Food Authority said in a press release yesterday.

NFA records showed that the first shipment of 20,000 rice bags arrived on Oct. 7, followed by 30,000 bags on Oct. 20 and 41,000 bags on Oct. 29.

The rice allocation of the province for 2007 is 390,000 bags, an NFA source said.

NFA provincial economist, Cheryl Marie Echiverri, said the daily rice consumption in the province is at 4,680 bags while the daily corn consumption is 4,850 bags.

Echiverri said the figures are based on records submitted by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics.*

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