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Civil society group, farmers opposed rice import liberalization under AFTA-CEPT Rice Watch and Action Network (R1) and farmers belonging to different organizations opposed the reduction of the tariff rate of rice as the government prepares to phase in the country’s staple from the Highly Sensitive List (HSL) to the Inclusion List (IL) in the Asean Free Trade Area Preferential Tariff Scheme or AFTA-CEPT in 2010. In a hearing of the Tariff Commission today, the groups proposed for a moratorium of the inclusion of rice pending the successful implementation of the government’s FIELDS program that was touted to bring the country to rice self-sufficiency by 2013.
Civil Society and Farmers Proposal: Integration of sustainable rice production system in the FIELDS program RATIONALE The civil society and farmers proposethat sustainable rice production system be given equal importance and opportunities in the government's rice self-sufficiency program until 2010. Providing equal political and material support to the following proposals was deemed critical at this point. The agriculture department's banner programs that are dependent on commercially-developed hybrid rice seedsand focused on chemical-based farm inputs were proven tobe the killer factors that greatly contributed to this nationwide rice crisis and failing income of the rice farmers.
RETHINKING FOOD SECURITY: How will you feed a nation like the Philippines? Jessica Reyes-Cantos
People have been knocking their heads off trying to answer the question of the hour: Is there a rice supply shortage? The government assures us that there is an adequate supply—the problem is merely high rice prices. So why would prices rise if there is adequate supply in the first place? It simply doesn't fit in with the Economics 11 that I learned from my Professor back then, Solita Monsod. Whatever it is, the fact is, our domestic rice production has long been insufficient to feed our people. And we have been making up for our production "shortfall" by importing an average of 1.2 million metric tons the past seven years, or roughly 10 percent of what we consume. In the past, it was much cheaper to import the shortfall, but in late 2007, there was already an uptick in prices. Beginning this year though, the price has grown by leaps and bounds and is even projected to hit $1,000 per metric ton within the year, up from $430 per metric ton in the beginning of 2008.
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