Urban poor group Kadamay looked back on Ferdinand Marcos Jr's promises, and found that none has been fulfilled, including bringing down the price of rice to P20 per kilo.
"The Duterte government should ensure affordable and accessible food supply especially to the poor and marginalized to guarantee the Filipinos’ survival against COVID-19 and hunger.”
Nitong mga nakaraang buwan, halos dumapa nang husto ang presyo ng palay sa pamilihan sanhi ng pagdagsa ng mga inangkat na bigas mula sa ibang bansa. Mas mahal pa ang isang istik ng sigarilyo o isang bote ng softdrinks kaysa sa isang kilo ng palay. Sa walang habas na pagpasok ng mga inangkat na dayuhang palay, wala nang proteksyon ang mga magsasaka na pangalagaan ang kanilang mga ani sa pamilihan.
By HEATHER ANN AMOROSO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Days after the Philippine Statistics Authority revealed that the country has hit another nine-year high inflation rate, members of women's group Gabriela protested in front of the Department of Agriculture (DA) against...
Science and technology advocates want the government to take action in modernizing local agriculture.
“It is ironic that the rural people who are the primary food producers are the ones who are experiencing lack of food and drastic hunger.”
“The farmers-as-importers program is nothing but a legal cover provided by the NFA to rice cartels and smugglers to corner the big bulk of rice importation.” – Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas warned that the Philippines risks going through a rice crisis as the Benigno Aquino III administration is set to open the floodgates to bigger amounts of rice imports. June 30...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is outraged against what it described as the United State government’s attempts to blackmail the Philippines. The US is standing against the petition of the Philippines to...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com La Trinidad, Benguet -- Adlai may become the alternative to rice. Adlai is known also as “Job’s tears”, with a scientific name of Coix lacryma-jobi L.. It is a freely branching upright plant that grows up to three feet tall and is being...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com There would be no food security in the country for as long as it remains largely dependent on rice imports. The advocacy group Bantay Bigas renewed its call for rice sufficiency in the Philippines in the wake of the release of...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The rice industry is in peril as production of the staple food in the Philippines has been declining in the last two years, an agriculturalist said in a recently released report.
By NOELLE JIANG Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific Democratic Space Posted by (Bulatlat.com) The Rice Crisis of 2008 saw rice stocks at their lowest in 30 years and rice prices increase by up to 40 per cent. While agrochemical transnational...
This carinderia owner in Alabel, Sarangani still manages to smile because of the brisk sales of rice that she enjoys. The same cannot be said though of those who are buying rice, as they have to put up with rising prices of the Filipino staple. BY COCOY SEXCION /...
“Awanen! Uray adda pay koma’t magapas... nu alaen amin ti minas dagiti taltalon, anya ngay ti mabalin dagiti mannalon?” (It is all gone. Although there are yet palay to harvest... if the fields would be eaten up by the mines, what is there left for the farmers?) BY...
Not only does rice importation hurt local farmers, it is also the culprit behind the billions of pesos in losses incurred by the National Food Authority (NFA) over the years.
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