Issues Encountered Actions Taken/ Crafted Outcome of Actions

Price stabilization Resolutions and and Activities

activities its Impact Taken
Surge in the number Coordinated with the A total of (29) Promoted awareness
of overpricing Local Government price related of LGUs on the price
complaints with Units for assistance in complaints have freeze and
regards to prices of validating the said undergone reactivation of LPCC
agri-commodities complaints necessary actions
from the
respective LGUs.
Lack of price Coordinated with (41) price A number of
monitoring data for LGUs requesting for monitoring municipalities/cities
Region IV- price monitoring from reports were have
CALABARZON during their respective public received from activated/reactivate
the “lockdown” of markets different d their own price
some cities and municipalities/citi coordinating
municipalities on the es in the region, councils as per Rule
implemented and these were VI of Joint A.O. #1, S.
Enhanced Community used as price data of 1993, IRR of RA
Quarantine (ECQ) for reports 7581 (Price Act)
submitted.
Absence/limited data Farmer Associations, None None
on supply level of Major Trading centers
selected agri- Municipal/City/Provi
commodities ncial Veterinarians
and Agriculturists and
Market Admin. Office
are being consulted
with regards to the
situation of supply
within CALABARZON
Inactive/ Absence of Coordinated with all There were LGUs 10 different
Local Price of the Local Chief that signify their municipalities have
Coordinating Council Executives (LCEs) to intent to re- submitted their LPCC
(LPCC) of the LGUs activate their LPCC activate their resolutions and the
especially those cities LPCC province of Rizal
and municipalities have their Provincial
that have price LPCC activated.
complaints
Lack of adjudication Complaints received None LGUs with
officer / legal officer were endorsed to the enforcement units
and enforcement unit respective LGUs since were able to issue
within DA RFO IV-A they have their own notice of violations
and Department of legal officer and to those vendors
Agriculture in general enforcement units selling products
 higher than the what
was proposed in the
price freeze
Complaints endorsed Continuous A total of 31 Validation reports
to the LGUs were not coordination with the complaints have were being done by
prioritized due to Municipal/City/Provi actions taken the concerned office
their limited human ncial Veterinarians from their and is being
and financial and Agriculturists respective LGUs. submitted to AMAD
resources were done to address (29) price and of DA RFO IV-A
the complaints within supply related,
the locality and (2) movement
related.

Additional Notes:
- There were no official resolutions crafted by the Department of Agriculture IV-
CALABARZON with regards to the activities by the Bantay Presyo Task Force. Although a
price freeze directive was sent to Local Chief Executives to be used as basis for price
related concerns.
- Due to the absence of an adjudication officer and an enforcement unit, the department
cannot directly apprehend proven violators of overpricing. An alternative would be letting
the respective LGUs issue notices of violations as long as it is in their jurisdiction.
- Although there are a number of complaints received during the quarantine, price
monitoring reports from different public markets in the region recorded prices that are just
within the range of the price freeze directive. With this we can say that some of the
complaints are isolated cases wherein price manipulation were being done by a few
vendors to benefit from the pandemic situation.
- Other activities done by the department with regards to price stabilization was the
continuous monitoring of palay prices in the region and the issuance of food pass for the
duration of the ECQ, this aid in the assurance of food supply throughout the region.