The Philippine Rice Crisis

[mercadian]

There is no rice crisis.. this issue started by the opposition senators at the beginning puro ra sila sat2x blaiming people in the administration but even sila they are spending peoples money wala gani sila gibuhat.. nag himo ba silag action? The Department of Agriculture ra nag trabaho.. si Pimentel sig sat2x way gibujat si Villar sig sat2x way gibuhat I mean unsa man diay ilang purpose pagka senator? ug wala silay gibuhat then why should we need then? if pwede pa na sila ma fire e kick out from work dayon lousy kaayo.

Now the traders are leveraging the hype of the issue.. the price went up like 20% after the news went up... why? kay mga opportunista kaayo maayo hinoon na sila gi pang police and raided para ma undang na na and they be sanction by laws and fine para ma priso na sila.

I think you are partly wrong, the government is manipulating this issue to divert attention from the public and forget the NBN ZTE investigation. There are too many questions unanswered and GMA has no plan to say sorry again to the public like what she did in 2004 election.

[sweet_freak]

dili tinuod ang rice crisis...ang mga opposition ra na ang gabuhat kay para mu down c arroyo...

hapit na gud election...1 year to go na lang...so..daghan jud mang gawas na issue para mapahawa na c arroyo...

[ajol]

pag andam nalang sa tanan

Gasoline price is P50/liter

mo apas na ang presyo sa bugas sa gasoline... P50/kilo

[sweet_freak]

sos! magka rice crisis jud tag tinuod kung c erap madaog ig 2010!!! maglakaw na mga average na tao kay wa nay money para palit gasolina...

[wilhelmina]

ahaka, mga one month ago last ko nipalit ug buga, tag-32 pa man, two days ago kay 37/kilo na ang ganador. ambot na lang pila kaha karon. galisod pa jud ko pangita asa ko mupalit kay ang mga retailers duol diri kay wa na mamaligya ug buga, mahal na kuno kaayo

paeta aning wa maanad ug palit-palit dah.

[ajol]

it would be better if we could post RICE price board.....

[mercadian]

OPPOSITION ANG NAGBUHAT? Maybe/ maybe not manipulate ni nga issue. What about ask the congressmen and senators kong asa na ang Pork Barrels? NBN-ZTE issue kalimtan nalang kay nag krisis sa Rice? When GMA will come out and tell the Filipino people the truth about the case and Spratly?

Kadaghan sa questions nga tubagunon. Kanus man ang answers? nobody knows.........cge liko liko sa issue it will get worst. God knows sa tanan............

[giddyboy]

Niingon c Erap nga himo2x ra kno ni ang rice crisis isyu para makakuha ug kickback ang admin sa NFA importation in preparation for 2010 elections...tinuod kha ni o hakop ra sa hangin?

[ajol]

basta pag andam namo

just idea

from seed to rice it take 4.5 months under ideal conditions (plenty of water)

so with rice prices going up... expect farmer to plant more.... which in effect could bring more harvest and lower the price.

[tinsi]

A year ago I purchased a great book written by Mr. Rey Angeles entitled THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY DO OUR LEADERS HAVE A CLUE? In several pages of the book (starting on page 19) Mr. Angeles already raised a lot of questions on the data coming from the agricultural sector. Below is my understanding of what he wrote.
A lot of you may be familiar with the touted growth of the economy in leaps and bounds in the recent years. A significant % of that growth the government attributes to the increased agricultural output (in 2006 close to 4%) and yet Mr. Angeles asks... despite such a remarkable growth in farm output (this despite the typhoons,) why did the NFA import roughly 15 million metric tons of rice whcih cost the NFA 22 B Pesos making it the biggest loser of all GOCC's?
If we do the math, we have a 4% increase in rice production in 2006 on top of which we imported several tons of rice and yet the popolution increased by only 2%.... who were we feeding? According to the NFA Adminstrator Gregorio Tan , it was for buffer stock. Okay we probably did the same thing in 2007. So where are the buffer stocks now? Why the long queus? And why is it that according to the latest issue of the Newsweek Magazine " ON the United Nations lis of coutnries most vulnerable to food shocks (according to their demand for imported food), Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh rank first second and fourth respectively"
As a citizen, I can only come up with two possibilites either 1) the agriculture sector never really achieved the growth that the government said it did thereby our economy did not actually grow in "leaps and bounds" and that the importations we made were really to meet current demand OR 2) We DO HAVE BUFFER STOCK from all of that importation but that the crisis is a good time to make more money for the rice cartels
This is a huge concern and all of us need to sit up and start seeing through all the lies and window dressing.