Manila, July 15 -- Since its launch in May, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s initiative to provide PHP20 per kg. rice to vulnerable sectors has benefitted close to a million Filipinos, the Department of Agriculture (DA) reported on Tuesday.The subsidized rice provided by the DA under the "Benteng Bigas Meron (BBM) Na!" program is available to senior citizens, persons with disabilities, solo parents, beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and the Walang Gutom Program, and minimum wage earners.As of July 14, a total of 2,105 metric tons (MT) of subsidized rice were sold to 217,614 households."At 217,000 households already benefitting at four persons per household, we're almost hitting 1 million total beneficiaries f...