Ayon sa Department of Agriculture, tumaas ang dami ng inangkat na bigas noong 2024 dahil umano sa mababang lokal na produksiyon, mga kalamidad, at pagbaba ng taripa.
Dahil dito, dumarami ang murang imported na bigas sa bansa na nagdudulot ng hamon sa mga lokal at maliliit na magsasaka.
Panoorin ang ‘Fake Rice For Sale?’ dokumentaryo ni John Consulta sa #IWitness.
Dahil dito, dumarami ang murang imported na bigas sa bansa na nagdudulot ng hamon sa mga lokal at maliliit na magsasaka.
Panoorin ang ‘Fake Rice For Sale?’ dokumentaryo ni John Consulta sa #IWitness.
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00:00Despite their hard work, the farmers remain the poorest sector in the country.
00:08First, they don't have capital.
00:12When they farm, they depend on informal lenders, the 5-6.
00:21After harvest, they have a lot of money.
00:25But they only pay their debts.
00:31The rest of the money goes to their children's education.
00:38And because the farmers don't have enough support,
00:42they are not able to provide enough for the needs of the country.
00:50That's why the government's solution is importation
00:54to make up for their shortcomings.
00:57But the problem is that importation is out of control.
01:02There are smugglers there.
01:05As you can see from the raids, they haven't been released for a long time.
01:12So it's hard for the Philippines to be self-sufficient
01:17for a lot of reasons.
01:20First, small landholdings.
01:23We have a lot of calamities, diseases, and policies.
01:33The problem is that when traders hear about importation,
01:42they will lower their prices because they are poor.
01:56We are here at a market in Quezon City
01:58because we heard that apart from the farmers,
02:01even the rice sellers are suffering.
02:06Is this rice imported?
02:09Yes, it's imported.
02:11What is the cheapest and highest price in our local market?
02:18We have 43,000 pesos.
02:25Okay.
02:2643,000 pesos to 57,000 pesos.
02:32Oh, it's really high.
02:35In February 2023, local whale-milled rice became cheaper
02:41at the price of 37,000 to 45,000 pesos per kilo.
02:46In 2024, it increased to 50,000 to 58,000 pesos per kilo.
02:53In 2025, it will go down to 40,000 to 53,000 pesos per kilo.
03:01The price of local rice is not far from imported rice.
03:05But in this store, the cheapest rice is imported.
03:12Sir, where do you sell imported rice?
03:14Which one is the cheapest?
03:16This one.
03:17This one?
03:18The broken one.
03:19Ah, okay.
03:20Why is it cheap, sir?
03:22Because it's cheap.
03:24The other one is broken.
03:30In February, the Department of Agriculture declared a food security emergency on rice.
03:36Its aim is to lower the price of rice in the market.
03:43Well, first and foremost, the key factor that has led us to declare that emergency
03:48is that even if we have already favorable circumstances,
03:55especially with the reduction of the tariff,
03:58and of course, the price of rice worldwide is going down,
04:02we can see that the price of rice is not going down.
04:06We can see that the price of rice is not going down.
04:11It's taking the market so long to adjust to the expected decrease.
04:18In this rice crisis,
04:20it's not just the smugglers and hoarders who are the enemies of the farmers.
04:27We can see that the amount of water is increasing in the fields.
04:39Thank you very much for talking to Eyewitness.
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