Manila, April 23 -- The goal to bring down the price of rice to PHP20 per kilogram is a promise that is now being fulfilled, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Wednesday.

This, after Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. announced that rice will be sold at PHP20 per kilo in Visayas.

"[Twenty] pesos kada kilo na bigas. Iyan ang pangako-at ngayon, sinisimulan na natin itong maisakatuparan sa Visayas region (Twenty pesos per kilo of rice. That's the promise -and now, we're starting to make it happen in the Visayas region)," Marcos said in a Facebook post.

The pilot launch of the sale of PHP20 per kilo in Visayas was a result of Marcos' closed-door meeting with 12 governors in the region.

Under the program, i...