Memorandum Circular No. 9, Series of 2020 on Supplemental Circular Based on the Memorandum issued by the Executive Secretary on Enhanced Community Quarantine, Ensuring Unhampered Movement of All Cargoes, Agriculture and Fishery Inputs, Food Products and Agribusiness Personnel Nationwide.

In compliance to the Memorandum from the Executive Secretary to implement and ensure compliance with the provisions of the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture on the Prices of Essential Emergency Medicines and Supplies, and Selected Agriculture and Fishery Commodities of the Office of the President issued on 17 March 2020, movement of cargoes in any forms of conveyance, shall be unhampered, and prices of agriculture and fishery commodities shall be stabilized. To complement the said issuances, the Department has issued Memorandum Circular No. 07 (series of 2020) to ensure that every Filipino household in Luzon and high dense metropolitan areas will have access to safe and affordable food. This Memorandum Circular covers the implementation of the Food Resiliency Protocol for Luzon to include the entire country.
The objectives of this Circular are: 1) to ensure unhampered movement of cargoes, agriculture and fishery inputs and other food products to, from, and passing through NCR and the rest of the country; 2) to stabilize prices of agri-fishery inputs and other food products; and 3) to implement this Memorandum Circular also in the regional and local levels. All agricultural supply stores/outlets nationwide and animal clinics must be allowed to operate under a skeletal force as part of the enhanced community quarantine measures in order for farmers, fisherfolks, and livestock breeders with the essential inputs to sustain and support the production and processing of agricultural and fishery commodities and/or products. Inclusion of copra and coconut by-products under food commodities, such as copra and charcoal from coconut, except for lumber. All farmers and farm workers, fisherfolk and agribusiness personnel shall be exempted from doing home quarantine.