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    Local Farmers, The Real Victim of Country's Rice Problem!

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    Local farmers in the Philippines are suffering due to the country's reliance on imported rice. While importing rice lowers consumer prices in the short term, it forces local farmers to lower their prices too in order to compete. As a result, farmers earn little for their work and investment in rice production. The government should support local farmers by reducing rice imports and ensuring farmers receive fair prices, which could boost domestic supply and help control food prices long term while also protecting farmers' livelihoods.

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    Local Farmers, The Real Victim of Country's Rice Problem!

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    Local farmers in the Philippines are suffering due to the country's reliance on imported rice. While importing rice lowers consumer prices in the short term, it forces local farmers to lower their prices too in order to compete. As a result, farmers earn little for their work and investment in rice production. The government should support local farmers by reducing rice imports and ensuring farmers receive fair prices, which could boost domestic supply and help control food prices long term while also protecting farmers' livelihoods.

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    Local farmers in the Philippines are suffering due to the country's reliance on imported rice. While importing rice lowers consumer prices in the short term, it forces local farmers to lower their prices too in order to compete. As a result, farmers earn little for their work and investment in rice production. The government should support local farmers by reducing rice imports and ensuring farmers receive fair prices, which could boost domestic supply and help control food prices long term while also protecting farmers' livelihoods.

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    Local Farmers, The Real Victim of Country's Rice Problem!

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    Local farmers in the Philippines are suffering due to the country's reliance on imported rice. While importing rice lowers consumer prices in the short term, it forces local farmers to lower their prices too in order to compete. As a result, farmers earn little for their work and investment in rice production. The government should support local farmers by reducing rice imports and ensuring farmers receive fair prices, which could boost domestic supply and help control food prices long term while also protecting farmers' livelihoods.

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    Local Farmers, the Real Victim of Country’s Rice Problem!

    We can’t deny that presently there is so much that is going wrong in the
    Philippines. If asked to list down the positive things happening in the country one
    would be hard-pressed to think of anything truly substantial. What is more prevalent
    are the bad things, the continuous increase in the price of fuel, the crime rating
    climbing, and in general rising prices of almost all basic commodities.

    There are those who attribute the current inflation problem to the increasing
    global price oil. And while that may have an impact, another big reason people
    believe that the cost of prices are going crazy right now is the country’s lack of rice
    coupled with the devastation brought about by monsoons and typhoons on
    vegetables and other crops. However, rice does remain at the crux of the problem.
    This most basic food staple has been sorely lacking causing several rice increases and
    making it hard for citizens to afford the Filipino food staple for their families.

    It’s actually a sad situation for a long time because Philippines is known to be a
    country where agriculture is the common source of living. We needed to invest in
    our agriculture sector for a long time and I feel that we just continued to let it get
    past a point of no return. Now we are struggling when we could have planned better
    a long time ago.

    Honestly, when you look back we used to be one of the leading producers of rice
    in the world. Other countries in Southeast Asia would come to the Philippines to
    learn about rice and the methods we used. We were a shining example to our Asian
    neighbors back then. But sadly it didn’t last and today we are forced to import rice in
    the hopes of driving prices down and alleviating the scarcity. Obviously something
    went really wrong along the way and I think it’s important the government try to
    address the real problem instead of just thinking of short-term solutions.

    Currently the Department of Agriculture is allowing retailers to directly import


    rice. This would be a first and the government hopes that effectively removing the
    middle men will help retailers get rice and that they can sell at a lower cost in the
    local markets.

    This make sense but with so much dependence on imported rice, how will this
    affect local farmers and the price of locally produced grains? Since the price of the
    imported rice gets lower, the local farmers like here in Ilocos Region are forced to
    sell their grains at the lower cost also. Hence, they are still the victim of this situation.
    No one will buy their rice if they will sell it at the higher price because people would
    still choose to buy imported rice since it is much cheaper. Still, the local farmers are
    the once who will gain nothing. They spend a lot of time and money in producing rice
    just to supply the needs of every Filipino but they can’t gain the enough value
    because of the competition with the imported rice.

    The government must come to think of this. In my own point of view, why not
    we encourage local farmers to produce more rice and we lessen the number of
    imported rice in the country just to patronize the local farmers. I think the supply of
    rice in the country is much enough if we value our local farmers. If we give the right
    amount for the price of the rice they produced. Imported rice is also the problem
    why their is increasing of price to our food supplies.

    Mariell J. Pahinag
    BA in Communication II

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