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        "id": 1088746,
        "msgid": "manila-returns-to-rice-market-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-02-21 00:00:00",
        "title": "Manila returns to rice market",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Manila returns to rice market MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines plans to buy an initial 100,000 tons of rice next month in a tender to be held by state- trading firm National Food Authority (NFA), its deputy administrator Gregorio Tan said on Tuesday. Government officials said the results of the NFA tender on March 8 would be used by Manila as a yardstick for its plan to negotiate with the governments of Asian rice exporters to supply an additional 350,000 tons.",
        "content": "<p>Manila returns to rice market<\/p>\n<p>MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines plans to buy an initial<br>\n100,000 tons of rice next month in a tender to be held by state-<br>\ntrading firm National Food Authority (NFA), its deputy<br>\nadministrator Gregorio Tan said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials said the results of the NFA tender on<br>\nMarch 8 would be used by Manila as a yardstick for its plan to<br>\nnegotiate with the governments of Asian rice exporters to supply<br>\nan additional 350,000 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Tan told Reuters by phone the state trading firm planned to<br>\nseek tenders for the supply of 15 percent or 25 percent broken<br>\nrice for March\/April arrival in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said the NFA will accept offers of rice from Vietnam,<br>\nThailand and China.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The results of the bidding will be used as an indicator for<br>\nthe government-to-government negotiations for the supply of an<br>\nadditional 350,000 tons,&quot; another senior government official<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo approved the import by the<br>\nNFA of 450,000 tons of rice in the first half of the year to<br>\npartly fill a projected shortfall this year and to keep food<br>\nprices low.<\/p>",
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