"Palay procurements are through in-house transactions where farmers deliver their palay produce to the nearest warehouse as well as through mobile procurements where farmers reach out to the agency to pick up their harvests in a designated area," said NFA Branch Acting Public Information Officer Salve Mae Agustin.

Stockes delivered in warehouses and collected through mobile procurements are carefully classified by the assigned classifiers to ensure that the required quality standards are followed to maintain
its class during storage, she added.

The NFA buys at P19.00 per kilogram of a clean and dry palay with purity ranging from 95 percent to 100 percent and with moisture content of not less than 14 percent.