could impact food security should compromise food supply. No proposal to increase to five percent Filipino should go hungry,, he said after the CME blend, branding it ab ,,anti- I leader ofthe House of Represen- the Deparhnent o{ Agiculture (DA) is consumet" citing its adverse impact on /f tatives has expressed concern planning to increase to 6ve percent the pump prices.
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He asked tJIe DA to assess the real "As it is, consumers are alrcady faced with the burden of high fuel prices,,, Ve- two percent - the coconut metryl ester benefits of biofuels on farmerq and its lasco said. (CME) blend of diesel tuel codd impact plan to assist farmers delelopalternative "Raising the biofuels blend will only the counh]r's food secffity markets for the local copra industry, such aggravate this, as the upward adjushnent Marinduque nep. Lord Allan Velasco, as in health, cosmetics and animal feed in the CME blend is pmjected lo increase chairman of the House Committee on markets. the pump prices in diesel by at least pz.2s Energr and co-chairman of the Joint Velasco also sought the implementa- per lite4" he said- Congressiona-l Oversight Committed on bon of the SocialAmelioration andWelhre At the present 2 percent blend, ihe Biofuels, wamed that theincrease in CME Program for Workers in the Biofuels impactof CME on dieselis alrcadvat pL50 blend might affect the prices of other agri- Prcduction (SAWP) by the Deparhnent per liteq he poinbd out. cdtural cornrnoditiesif agricr.rlturallands oflabor and Emplosrynent (DOLE). "We must keep in mind ttlat a huge devoted to food crops are used for biofuels "Underthe la11 SAWP should aid our chunk of diesel consumers is ftom the pmduction. crprafrrmers in elploringotherlivelihood public h'anspofl sectol and any increase "Food security r€mains our primary opportunities," he said- in diesel prices will lead to higher hans- priority. By no means this pioposal The House leader rejected tlre DAs portation cost" Velasco added"