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This as harvest area is seen to contract by three percent to 905,560 hectares from 932,790 hectares.<br />
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MANILA, Philippines — The country’s production of palay (unhusked rice) and corn is seen to decline in the second quarter due to the effects of the El Niño phenomenon that hit the country.</div>
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Based on the latest crops outlook of the Philippine Statistics Authority, palay production is expected to drop by 6.5 percent to 3.83 million metric tons (MT) in April to June.</div>
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This as harvest area is seen to contract by three percent to 905,560 hectares from 932,790 hectares.</div>
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Yield per hectare may also decrease to 4.22 MT from 4.38 MT a year ago.</div>
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About 63.9 percent of the updated standing crop of more than 900,000 hectares had already been harvested.</div>
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About 33 percent of the 453,920 hectares of standing crop are still at vegetative stage, 17 percent at reproductive stage, and 50 percent at maturing stage.</div>
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Meanwhile, corn production is also expected to decline by 10.2 percent to 1.15 million MT in the second quarter.</div>
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Harvest area is also seen to drop to 374,650 hectares from 392,360 hectares in 2018.</div>
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Yield per hectare may likewise decrease to 3.08 MT from 3.27 MT.</div>
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About 58 percent of the updated standing crop had been harvested.</div>
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BAGUIO CITY, Benguet, Philippines — The Philippines had planned to be self-sufficient in rice by 2017 and be at par with rice exporting countries like Vietnam and Thailand.</div>
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But scientific breakthroughs and technology had not been transmitted to farmers by the country’s food research community as had been intended, Sen. Cynthia Villar said during a North Luzon business forum of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday.</div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Villar, chair of the Senate committee on agriculture, said rice farmers needed to be immersed in the latest discoveries of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) now that rice importation had been liberalized.</span></div>
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“PhilRice and PhilMech (which are overseen by the Department of Agriculture) were created but there appeared to be some misconception that these institutions’ primary task was research when they needed to bring their findings to the farm level,” she said.</div>
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Villar blamed the failure to transfer knowledge and technology on budget constraints.</div>
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Farmers have been upset by the rice tariffication law (Republic Act No. 11203), which lifted restrictions on rice importation but imposed import taxes of as high as 35 percent on imports.</div>
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Villar said the agriculture industry could be “steered in the right direction” using the six-year Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, amounting to P10 billion a year, which is provided for under the tariffication law.</div>
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The law allocates P5 billion for mechanizing rice farms and P3 billion for developing and promoting high-value rice.</div>
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Also, P1 billion will be opened as credit support, and another P1 billion will be spent on extension support and the education of rice farmers.</div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Villar said the key to self-sufficiency was mechanization because it would cut down expenses on labor and reduce the influence of middlemen.</span></div>
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Postharvest technologies will also enable farmers to sell directly to the market, she said.</div>
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In Vietnam, mechanization reduced production labor cost to the equivalent of P120, compared to the average P460 labor expense of a rice farmer in the Philippines, Villar said.</div>
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Vietnam, she said, spends P6 to produce a kilo of palay, which is half the production cost of P12 in the Philippines.</div>
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PhilRice has developed an inbred grain variety that can increase the yield of rice farmers to 6 metric tons a hectare from the present 4 MT.</div>
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Should this happen, the country can solve its 7-percent rice shortage, which ranges from 600,000 MT to 1 million MT, Villar said.</div>
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The next six years will define the impact of PhilMech and PhilRice on food production as well as farmers’ reception to new technology, she said.</div>
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Of the 8 million crop farmers in the country, 3.5 million are coconut farmers, while 3.5 million are rice growers.</div>
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The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI) said the Rice Tariffication Law has so far stripped farmers of P95 billion in income as the influx of cheap rice from other countries has pulled down rice prices.<br />
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MANILA, Philippines — Local farmers are losing as much as P95 billion with the implementation of the rice import liberalization law.</div>
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The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI) said the Rice Tariffication Law has so far stripped farmers of P95 billion in income as the influx of cheap rice from other countries has pulled down rice prices.</div>
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“At the prevailing farmgate price of palay (unhusked rice) which declined by around P5 per kilogram, Filipino farmers are deprived by as much as P95 billion in income. It is based on the country’s local palay production of 19 million metric tons annually,” said Frisco Malabanan, a member of PCAFI and technical advisor at SL Agritech.</div>
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Farmgate price of palay in some parts of Central Luzon already dropped to P11 to P13 per kilo from the previous P17 to P20 per kilo.</div>
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The private sector also expressed concern over the quality of rice entering the market.</div>
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“Imported rice looks new, shiny, fragrant and nice as some of them appear to be whole grains and not broken rice at times due to mixture with local rice. But these are the poorest of all rice as Philippines imports the cheaper, broken rice,” he said.</div>
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PCAFI said importation used to be for buffer stocking, but has now become a permanent solution to the rice shortage.</div>
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“Rice from Thailand and Vietnam is not as good as local rice. We produce local rice, we do not mix with imports. It’s entirely good, even much better quality than imported,” PCAFI said.</div>
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“Other countries’ rice has long been stocked in the warehouse, shipped for some time, and stocked again in local warehouses. Their rice is sprayed with pesticides because of pests and with artificial fragrance because it smells old,” PCAFI said.</div>
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PHILIPPINE rice imports this year will rise by 20 percent to a record high of 3 million metric tons (MMT), making the country one of the world’s top buyers of the staple, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).</div>
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The USDA said purchases for imports went up after the government removed the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice with the implementation of Republic Act (RA) 11203, or the rice trade liberalization law.</div>
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On March 5 the government, through RA 11203, liberalized the country’s rice trade by removing the QR on the staple and limiting the role of the National Food Authority to buffer stocking.</div>
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In its monthly global grains situation report, the USDA said it has observed “rapid pace of shipments, particularly from Vietnam,” after the government liberalized domestic rice industry.</div>
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Due to this, the USDA revised upward its 2019 import forecast for the Philippines from the earlier estimated 2.8 MMT. The Philippines imported 2.5 MMT of rice last year, USDA data showed.</div>
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The Philippines’s projected rice purchases this year could eclipse the 2.4 MMT it bought in 2008, when the country experienced a rice-price crisis. USDA data showed that this will be the first time that the country’s purchases will hit the 3-MMT level.</div>
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USDA data also indicated that the projected rice purchases of the country for 2019 would make the Philippines the second-biggest buyer of the staple for the second consecutive year.</div>
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The USDA attributed this to higher ending stocks in 2019, which could settle at 3.39 MMT.</div>
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VJ RMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993663602965231231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-1460046355452159062016-05-31T23:38:00.001+08:002016-05-31T23:38:58.093+08:00Duterte gov’t faces early test over food security; rice policy in focus<span style="background-color: white; color: #004276; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif, helvetica, arial; font-size: 10px;">Posted on May 26, 2016 11:00:00 PM</span><br />
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WHILE Philippine elections this month were dominated by talk about crushing crime, the next president faces another critical early test: ensuring there is enough rice for the country’s more than 100 million people.<br />
The Philippine crop is suffering mounting drought damage, just as the country’s big Asian rice suppliers also suffer from an El Niño weather pattern.<br />
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In a country where rice accounts for about a quarter of the expenditure of the poor, any supply disruptions are extremely sensitive. Big purchases by the world’s third-biggest importer can also send shockwaves through markets.<br />
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There are now concerns that potentially vital imports may be delayed as the incoming administration of Rodrigo R. Duterte, who campaigned on making food available and affordable, looks to overhaul policies and review existing state purchase plans.<br />
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“Now is the right time to import as prices are starting to trend up,” said Bruce J. Tolentino, deputy director general for communication at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).<br />
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In 2008, lower Asian rice output also due to an El Nino prompted India to ban exports, sparking panic measures in the Philippines -- including ordering troops to supervise subsidized rice sales and asking fast food chains to serve half-portions.<br />
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Manila also had to scramble to import more rice in 2014 after prices shot up due to typhoon crop damage.<br />
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On May 13, Mr. Duterte’s campaign spokesman Peter T. Laviña said an April plan to allow the state buyer to import an additional 500,000 tons this year would be reviewed and the administration would immediately talk to Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia on new deals.<br />
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Mr. Lavina said the aim was to make the country self-sufficient in rice within one to two years, but would still allow imports until this was achieved.<br />
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Mr. Duterte’s choice for agriculture minister, Emmanuel F. Piñol, has said the administration will bar private traders from importing rice and put the task entirely in the hands of the state grains agency, the National Food Authority (NFA), a move that some traders say could stall imports.<br />
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“Many traders were expecting the Philippines to make the large 500,000 tons purchase shortly after approval was received, but no deals have happened, and this is really adding some intrigue to the market,” said James Fell, an economist at the International Grains Council in London.<br />
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NFA spokesman Angel G. Imperial Jr. said there was no urgent need to import given ample stocks. April stocks can meet 99 days of consumption, up from March’s 87 days, after the delayed arrival of some rice imported last year.<br />
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Nonetheless, there are concerns that time is running out for deals to safeguard stocks in the lean harvest season beginning in July as the new government will not officially take office until the end of June.<br />
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“It will create supply problems if they don’t buy until the end of June,” said a Singapore-based trader, who declined to be named as he was not authorized to speak to media.<br />
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Local rice prices have largely been stable in recent months, after authorities aggressively boosted state reserves following price spikes in 2014.<br />
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But the first-quarter rice harvest shrank nearly 10% from a year earlier to 3.9 million tons.<br />
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“Some of the NFA’s imported stocks are more than six months old so there’s also a need for them to immediately unload and then replenish,” said Jaime Magbanua, president of the Grains Retailers Confederation of the Philippines.<br />
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While an El Niño is now weakening, farm officials have warned of more crop damage later in the year when La Niña, the counterpart of El Niño, could develop and bring intense rains.<br />
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“WATCHING THE PHILIPPINES”<br />
With no import deals yet this year, the Philippines may need to boost 2016 imports to a six-year high of 2 million tons, based on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts.<br />
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That is as much as 300,000 tons higher than the NFA’s initial 2016 import estimate. It also comes as countries such as Indonesia and Iran are increasing purchases and world rice production is forecast to decline for the first time since 2010.<br />
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Thai rice prices hit a two-year high last week and have boosted prices in Vietnam, the main supplier to the Philippines.<br />
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“Everybody is watching the Philippines’ moves in the open market, which could trigger panic among buyers,” IRRI’s Mr. Tolentino said. -- ReutersVJ RMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993663602965231231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-33452371223938911582016-05-31T23:33:00.001+08:002016-05-31T23:33:26.958+08:00Bandits hijack rice truck on way to Isabela<div id="alh-wrap" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; height: auto; margin: 15px auto 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1240px;">
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CITY OF CAUAYAN, Isabela — Five gunmen on Friday hijacked a trailer truck carrying P7-million worth of rice along the highway in Nueva Ecija, a belated police report said Sunday.</div>
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The shipment of 750 cavans owned by Reynaldo Montemayor of San Fermin village here was being delivered from Metro Manila when the gunmen intercepted the truck in the town of Carranglan.</div>
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The truck driver and two of his helpers told police that the robbers took their mobile phones after commandeering their vehicle. They were later released in Calumpit, Bulacan, police said.</div>
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Cebu City – Despite the ongoing havoc caused by the prolonged dry weather characterizing the El Niño phenomenon in farms in Central Visayas, the National Food Authority (NFA) yesterday assured that the there is no danger of a shortage in rice because the region has enough sufficient supply of rice.</div>
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In a forum, NFA in Central Visayas (NFA-7) Assistant Regional Director Nestor Rey Alcoseba revealed that there are more than 2.1 million bags of rice allocated for Central Visayas out of the 750,000 metric tons delivered nationwide. The said rice supply is equivalent to a rice buffer of 62 days.<a href="http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cebu-map.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #056197; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></div>
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Alcoseba said an estimated 187 hectares are affected by El Niño in Cebu’s 32 municipalities. Damage in rice production in Cebu has been pegged at a total of P2.647 million. In Bohol, damage to rice plantations in at least five towns in the province is estimated to come to a total of P3.850 million.</div>
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The NFA is urging local government units in the region to team up with the government agency so they can immediately take out rice supply in case they see a shortage of rice in their respective areas.</div>
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“There is no problem with the stock, the problem is with the LGUs that do not reach out to the NFA for rice,” Alcoseba said.</div>
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The Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7)’s Planning Division Chief Francisco Sopsop said DA-7 has allocated P22 million to rice farmers affected by the El Niño weather phenomenon.</div>
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The province of Cebu has already been declared under a state of calamity due to the onset of the El Niño, with damages mostly in mango plantations, rice and other crops.</div>
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MANILA, Philippines — The seizure by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) of thousands of imported bags of rice last June at the Subic Freeport is just the tip of the iceberg.<br />
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The BOC, which showed the bags of rice to the media Friday, said that there are close to half a million bags of rice impounded at the Subic Freeport, which could be the largest smuggled rice interception by the agency under the Aquino government.<br />
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Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon ordered Customs agents assigned in Subic to identify those responsible for the undocumented shipment, which could have put many local farmers out of business.<img src="http://m.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep2012/pictures/t-13-08-news-1.jpg" /><br />
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“I ordered my personnel in Subic to look into the shipment, which arrived in April this year,” Biazon said.<br />
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Some 420,000 sacks of rice, shipped as bulk, were impounded after it was found out that they did not have the necessary import entry from the BOC and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the agency that oversees the Freeport.<br />
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The April illegal shipment was 10 times bigger than the seizure in June where 45,000 sacks of rice, with an estimated value of P42.5 million, were improperly declared as construction materials.<br />
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It was not clear where the 420,000 smuggled rice came from, but local farmers have been complaining that the market is being flooded by imported rice to the detriment of their own produce.<br />
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With the glut in imported rice, farmers are forced to sell their rice at a less competitive price, resulting to losses with the increasing cost of fertilizers.<br />
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In two instances last June, two importers found their separate rice shipments frozen for misdeclaration.<br />
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The shipment, stacked in 90 twenty-footer container vans, were allegedly consigned to Masagana Import Export Inc., of Binan, Laguna and Oriental Tradelink Express Inc. of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone. The rice reportedly came from Vietnam.<br />
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The container vans were opened Friday at Subic's New Container Terminal in the presence of Biazon, district collector Carmelita Talusan and other BOC officials.<br />
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“This is a large-scale attempt to smuggle rice into the country by misdeclaring the illegal shipment of rice which, had it not been for our alert customs operatives, could have affected the livelihood of many of our local farmers,” Biazon said.<br />
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“We will pursue charges against those involved in this attempt,” he vowed.<br />
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Misdeclaration of goods is a violation under the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines.<br />
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Rice importation is prohibited, unless undertaken by the National Food Authority (NFA) or when it is made by individuals or firms duly authorized by the NFA.vazirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784421622615653320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-75158756576686679302012-07-19T14:59:00.000+08:002016-05-31T23:43:29.889+08:00Win-win with brown rice<div class="articleSource">
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“Once upon a time, unpolished rice—that is, brown rice—was the only rice that Filipinos knew, back when pounding and winnowing were the only means our ancestors had for milling rice,” writes Prof. Ted Mendoza, crop scientist at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. “People across Asia ate unpolished rice in great quantities a century and a half ago,” add Robin Broad and John Cavanagh of American University and Institute of Policy Studies, respectively. “When Westerners brought rice mills to the country a century ago, Filipinos found the taste of the new white rice strange, and it took a while [for them] to get used to it.”<br />
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The milling machines may have made life somewhat easier, but they also altered the end product altogether, removing the bran from the rice and turning it white. Through time, white rice consumption dominated brown rice, and the latter became associated with poverty, even considered an inferior, “dirty” product. White rice, on the other hand, was considered modern and sophisticated.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>But the “modern” and “sophisticated” form of the food also made it unhealthy. Broad and Cavanagh argue that polishing rice into the sparkling white form that most people now prefer has caused major adverse health impacts. First, polishing removes most of the healthy vitamins and minerals found in rice. These include vitamin B and thiamine, the lack of which causes beriberi, a disease that afflicted those incarcerated by Japanese forces in World War II. Beriberi supposedly disappeared when guards let the prisoners cook the bran shavings that came off the polished rice they were fed with. White rice also raises the risk of diabetes, fast rising in the Philippines and elsewhere, as polishing removes nutrients that guard against the disease. Moreover, polished rice causes blood-sugar levels to rise more rapidly than brown rice does, further contributing to diabetes risk.<br />
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Polishing rice likewise reduces its protein content. Still other documented advantages of brown rice include reduced risk of gallstones; lower creation of arterial plaque buildup, hence reducing chances of developing heart disease and high cholesterol; high fiber content, thereby helping prevent colon cancer and promoting weight loss; presence of calcium, potassium, selenium, manganese, magnesium and silica, an important mineral for bone health and slowing the aging process… The list goes on. In short, the more polished the rice, the less healthy it is. Apart from type 2 diabetes, higher risks of other illnesses such as heart disease, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, etc. are associated with eating well-milled rice. The Asia Rice Foundation favors the term “whole grain rice” over brown rice, which should hold as much appeal to health buffs as whole grain cereal products do in general.<br />
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There is another important dimension to the merits of brown rice: It may actually hold the key to our country’s attaining self-sufficiency in rice, a goal that Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala seeks to achieve by next year. In the milling of brown rice, only around 28 percent of the husk is removed, unlike white rice that entails removal of 38 percent of the husk. That is, up to 10 percent additional rice volume can be achieved (higher “milling recovery”) from the same amount of palay if milled as brown rather than white rice. Brown rice is also more filling. Since whole grains contain more nutrients per calorie than polished and refined grains, people need less of it to fill their stomachs—one reason whole grain products are the choice of dieters. Mendoza believes that consuming brown rice would lead people to eat less rice in general— by his estimate, up to 20-40 percent less. He calculates that with brown rice, Filipinos will only consume an average of 84 kilograms per capita, as against the current level of around 110 kilos. With that, he figures that we can forego rice imports altogether with just 50 percent of Filipinos opting for brown rice.<br />
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So why don’t we eat more unpolished or whole grain rice? As they asked around, Broad and Cavanagh found the most common answers to be: “White rice tastes better” or “Our children find white rice easier to digest.” Some point out that brown rice takes longer to cook, thus requiring more fuel. Still others mention that brown rice tends to invite more insects, which are attracted to the same nutrients that make it so much healthier for humans. A valid concern is that it is (now) harder to find unpolished brown rice, and contrary to its image as “poor man’s rice,” it is actually more expensive than white rice.<br />
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None of these drawbacks is insurmountable. The taste can be addressed by the proper choice of rice variety, or mixing with well-milled rice. Cooking duration, which is associated with water absorption, can be shortened by soaking brown rice for half an hour before cooking. Proper storage will address insect problems. Scarcity and high price are not because brown rice is harder or costlier to produce; on the contrary, it entails less milling, hence less energy cost. It is the historical decline in consumption explained above that has turned it into a niche market, with its associated higher marketing costs.<br />
Mendoza is confident that with wider consumption of unpolished rice, the supply side will respond appropriately and eventually make healthier brown rice both widely accessible and affordable. But we Filipino consumers need to make the initial step.<br />
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And the step is well worth it. We will not only be helping ourselves, toward better health; we will also be helping the country, toward better food security.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mb.com.ph/">Manila Bulletin</a> - 06 July 2012</div>
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LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Local government units (LGUs) in this province may now purchase rice on credit from the National Food Authority (NFA) under a Rice Loan Program agreement between LGUs and the NFA-Western Pangasinan. “It (the program) is designed to cushion the impact of various calamities that may hit the country and will ensure the LGUs' priority access to NFA rice for its immediate relief distribution operations,” said NFA Provincial Manager Beverlyn Peralta. Under the agreement, certain terms and conditions for withdrawal of rice and payment of stock shall be followed based on the NFA Consumers' Price as indicated in the latest Selling Price Bulletin. (Liezle Basa Iñigo)<br />
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<a href="http://www.mb.com.ph/">Manila Bulletin</a> - 06 July 2012</div>
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MANILA, Philippines – More farmers and agribusiness people should attend the Agri Machinery Show which ends on Saturday at the World Trade Center at the corner of Gil Puyat Avenue and Macapagal Blvd., Pasay City.<br />
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The beauty about this trade show is that even the smallest farm implement distributors are showcasing their simplest wares side by side with the biggest tractors and rice harvesters.<br />
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This is possible because the exhibitors don’t pay any exhibition charge. It is free unlike most trade shows that are also held in the same venue. It is probably the idea of the Department of Agriculture to charge no participation fee so that the individuals or companies that can’t afford to pay a big amount will be able to showcase what they have.<br />
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That way, the farmers and agribusiness people would be able to see for themselves what are available in the market, including those that they would not know otherwise because of lack of exposure.<br />
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No doubt, the show will help promote farm mechanization which is sorely needed in the country to increase productivity as well as to improve the quality of farm produce.<br />
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Postharvest losses are a big dent from the production of rice, corn and other crops. Lack of appropriate drying facilities, for instance, is the cause of big losses in palay. The practice of drying rice on the highway, for instance, has been estimated to result in 5 to 10 percent losses. That’s a lot of losses.<br />
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Postharvest losses are incurred in harvesting, piling, threshing, drying, milling and storage. In terms of grain loss, the most critical is drying operation with an average loss of 5.86 percent, representing 36 percent of the total loss. Next is the milling operation with an average loss of 5.52 percent, constituting 34 percent of the total loss. Milling and drying losses comprise 70 percent of the national average postharvest losses.<br />
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Farm mechanization should be more vigorously promoted in the country. The DA figures show that only 0.52 horsepower is used per hectare in the Philippines. On the other hand, progressive countries like Japan and Korea have high power inputs of 7hp and 4.11 hp per hectare, respectively.<br />
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There are many benefits from mechanization. Better tillage and seedbed preparation, timely farm operation and better application of fertilizers increase yield in a big way.<br />
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Irrigation pumps have also been observed to increase rice yield, including the mechanical deep placement of fertilizers and pesticides in the farm. Machines can increase cropping intensity. Specifically, shallow tubewell irrigation is capable of doubling cropping intensity in Central Luzon and other parts of the country.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bworldonline.com/">Business World Online</a> - 05 July 2012</div>
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THE COUNTRY may no longer import rice next year -- or may bring in only a minimal volume -- if palay production this year exceeds the targeted output of 18.46 million metric tons (MT), a Cabinet official said on Thursday.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>“If production exceeds our target this year, then the excess can be used as our buffer stock, which means we could forego importation,” Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala told reporters in a media briefing on the second day of MakinaSaka 2012, a three-day agricultural machineries and equipment roadshow hosted by the department at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.<br /><br />The Philippines is importing 500,000 MT of rice this year, of which the private sector will shoulder 380,000 MT, while the National Food Authority (NFA) will procure 120,000 MT from Vietnam as part of a government-to-government deal.<br /><br />NFA imports rice to beef up the country’s buffer stock of the grain for the lean months of July to September.<br /><br />In 2011, the country imported 860,000 MT of the grain, down by 64.17% from the record 2.4 million MT in 2010. Of last year’s imports, 660,000 MT was bought by the private sector and 200,000 MT was shouldered by the NFA.<br /><br />The department aims to reduce imports as the government is targeting for the country to become self-sufficient in rice by the end of next year. “We will conduct a review by the end of the year. If we see that we have sufficient supply, then why would we still import?” Mr. Alcala explained.<br /><br />Palay production this year is expected to total some 18.46 million MT. In 2011, palay output reached 16.684 million MT, up by 5.78% from the 15.772 million MT recorded in 2010.<br /><br />“Even if we don’t exceed this year’s target, our importation will be significantly down. If ever we import next year, it will be between zero to 100,000 MT only,” said Dante S. Delima, Agriculture assistant secretary and coordinator of the National Rice Program, in a separate interview yesterday.<br /><br />On Monday last week, Mr. Delima also said that palay production for the first semester of this year will likely be up by 5% from the 7.58 million MT recorded in the same period in 2011.<br /><br />Actual production data will be released by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics in August.<br /><br />The Agriculture chief added that the department aims to increase NFA’s local palay procurement and could seek additional funding from the Budget department for this purpose.<br /><br />“There’s no problem with the budget. The president knows how crucial local palay procurement is in our goal to attain food self-sufficiency,” said Mr. Alcala.<br /><br />NFA aims to buy 1.248 million MT of palay from farmers this year, according to the government’s food security road map Last year, the agency bought 280,382 MT for P4.76 billion. Procurement fell short of the targeted half a million metric tons that year.<br /><br />NFA Administrator Angelito T. Banayo, however, said in March that the state grains agency may only be able to buy 591,675 MT of local palay this year as its funding is limited. The government provided the agency with a P4-billion subsidy for local palay procurement this year. The NFA buys palay from local farmers at P17.70 per kilogram.<br /><br />Meanwhile, President Benigno S.C. Aquino III, in his speech at MakinaSaka 2012, called for more private sector investments in agriculture even as he lauded the Agriculture department’s efforts towards the attainment of the government’s food sufficiency target.<br /><br />“Cooperation is key to ensuring long-term food self-sufficiency, as well as a stronger economy,” said Mr. Aquino.<br /><br />He said investments in technology, such as machinery and equipment exhibited in MakinaSaka, would help the country reduce postharvest losses in rice.<br /><br />“According to the Agriculture department, if we can bring down palay post-harvest losses by 6%, we may be able to add 650,000 MT to our rice stocks, which is more than the 500,000 MT we are importing this year,” he said.<br /><br />Mr. Aquino said the government allocated about P1 billion last year through the Agriculture department’s rice program for the procurement of 2,300 post-harvest machinery and various farm equipment last year. This year, the program’s mechanization budget was raised to about P2.6 billion. -- Bettina Faye V. Roc <br />vazirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784421622615653320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-74786064933481699872012-07-06T10:26:00.000+08:002012-07-06T10:40:48.684+08:00Jan.-June palay yield moves PHL closer toward rice self-sufficiency<div class="articleSource">
<a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/">Gma Network</a> - 05 July 2012
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Philippine palay production in the first six months is expected at 7.875 million metric tons, indicating the country is on the way toward self-sufficiency, Malacañang and the Department of Agriculture said Thursday.<br />
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“According to (DA Secretary) Proceso Alcala, we no longer need to import rice because we will become rice self-sufficient by then,” President Benigno Aquino III said in a speech at the Makina-Saka 2012, an agriculture trade event on farm mechanization at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.<br />
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“In 2013, if we are fortunate to not be hit hard by typhoons, it looks like we won’t just be self-sufficient, we will also be the ones to export rice,” he added.<br />
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Unlike in the past when the country recorded a 1.3-million-metric-ton shortage but imported 2.47 million MT, the government last year imported only 850,000 MT and only 500,000 MT this year, Aquino noted.<br />
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The country’s palay production for the year’s first semester may reduce rice imports to 100,000 MT in 2013 and may make the Philippines self-sufficient in rice, said the DA.<br />
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In exchange for lower imports, the National Food Authority (NFA) will be tasked to buy more palay from farmers to stabilize local prices and prevent traders from preying on farmers, according to the department.<br />
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Alcala said the country expects another record-breaking harvest brought about by intervention measures implemented by the department to prop up rice production.<br />
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“We will be able to break the record harvest in the first semester last year,” he said. Alcala noted that standing crops in the second quarter standing looks promising and would compensate for the previous quarter’s slight dip in output.<br />
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Palay output for the second quarter will be buffered by major palay-producing provinces such as Cagayan and Central Luzon.<br />
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Agriculture Assistant Secretary and Rice Program director Dante Delima attributed the expected robust output to good weather conditions this year.<br />
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Alcala presented the DA’s Food Staples Sufficiency Policy to Aquino during the Makina Saka, noting that the country is on schedule to attaining rice self-sufficiency by 2013.<br />
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Through the Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP), the country would also no longer need to import corn, cassava and other fruits and vegetables in the coming years, the President said.<br />
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To ensure the success of the program, he said government allotted P1 billion for the procurement of at least 2,300 units of postharvest machinery and other equipment in 2011.<br />
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This year, some P2.6 billion was allotted to the buy 7,000 agricultural machines that would be distributed to farmers’ groups and local government units.<br />
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The Philippines targets to produce as much as 18.46 million MT of rice in 2012, according to the DA. Rice output in the first quarter of the year posted a slower growth of 3.99 million MT, up by 1.12 percent from 4.03 million MT a year earlier.<br />
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Rice importation, meanwhile, was greatly reduced to 500,000 MT, from an all-time high of 2.4 million MT in 2010.<br />
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Aquino said government would invest on rehabilitation and repair of irrigation systems and push for stronger agricultural research and development. He also urged the private sector to continue helping the agriculture sector. — With Gian Geronimo/VS, GMA Newsvazirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784421622615653320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-24121332395022248602012-07-05T12:19:00.001+08:002012-07-06T10:09:38.793+08:00Organic farming gains ground<div class="articleSource">
<a class="articleSource" href="http://businessmirror.com.ph/">Business Mirror</a> - 02 July 2012</div>
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ORGANIC farming is the way to go for food security and healthier Filipinos.<br />
A total of 270 rice farmers in Pangasinan graduated last week from the Organikong Palayan (OP) field-school program organized by the La Liga Policy Institute. They will now apply in their own farms their newly acquired knowledge and skills in organic agriculture.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Organikong Palayan is an innovative agriculture development strategy. It taps local agri stakeholders—farmers, nongovernmental organizations, local government units, technicians and the national government through the Department of Agriculture—in a partnership to demonstrate organic agriculture as a viable and sustainable option for farmers and to institutionalize the program in the planning and budget priority of participating LGUs.<br />
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The OP program is consistent with the agriculture department’s own program called Agrikulturang Pilipino or Agri-Pinoy, which aims at food security and self-sufficiency, sustainable agriculture and fisheries, natural resource management and local development.<br />
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The farmers, from Pangasinan District 1’s Alaminos City and the municipalities of Bani, Burgos and Dasol, received their certificates of completion of the OP Season-Long Training (SLT) during the graduation ceremony held at the city’s Leopoldo Sison Auditorium. On hand during the occasion were officials from the partner-LGUs, headed by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza, DA Regional Director Valentin Perdido and other officials from the DA Regional Office and Bureau of Agriculture and Fishery Products Standards (BAFPS).<br />
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“The graduation of hundreds of new organic rice farmers is a milestone in our advocacy of sustainable, organic and ecological agriculture,” said La Liga Managing Director Roland Cabigas.<br />
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Organikong Palayan is a viable alternative that helps restore soil fertility, reduce expenses for agricultural inputs and increase the incomes of farmers and the farming community. In the medium term, it significantly contributes to the DA’s strategy of attaining food and staple sufficiency during the administration of President Aquino.<br />
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La Liga and the Go Organic Philippines movement have been advocating sustainable, organic and ecological agriculture in the country for years now. These two groups earlier pushed to have an organic agriculture legislation in the country. In 2010 the Philippine Organic Agriculture Act (RA 100681) was signed into law.<br />
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Organikong Palayan is La Liga’s response to the opportunities and challenges brought about by the enactment of the Philippine Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 and the National Organic Agriculture Plan (NOAP).<br />
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In July last year La Liga formally launched the OP program in the four Pangasinan localities in simple rites held in Alaminos City.<br />
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The farmers then enrolled in the SLT and participated in its 14 sessions of production of organic fertilizer and actual organic rice farming in eight designated learning farms (two for each of the LGU project areas).<br />
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The farmers have vowed to devote at least 105 hectares of combined farm areas to organic production in this year’s rice season.<br />
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Organikong Palayan is regarded as a success story as it was able to sustain the interest and participation of farmers in organic agriculture. Prior to this program, the farmers were engaged in chemical-based farming.<br />
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La Liga provides the farmers with their initial organic rice-production needs consisting of rice seeds; equipment and materials for production of organic fertilizer such as worms for vermiculture, rice-hull carbonizers and vermicast or vermicompost; as well as high-grade shovels and resource materials. The group will also continue the mentoring and monitoring component of the program for the farmers.<br />
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Local chief executives of the program’s partner-LGUs, namely, the mayors of Alaminos City, Bani, Burgos and Dasol, for their part, have committed to further promote this environmentally sound agriculture model in their respective localities.<br />
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This initiative in the four LGUs will be replicated in other towns of Pangasinan and the Ilocos region. Pangasinan is one of the leading agricultural commodity producers in the country.<br />
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Alaminos, Bani, Burgos and Dasol, all in Western Pangasinan, are members of the One Pangasinan Alliance of LGUs, an economic partnership that promotes resource sharing for local economic development.<br />
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E-mail: ernhil@yahoo.com.vazirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784421622615653320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-72988420508526605342012-07-03T15:54:00.002+08:002012-07-03T16:05:23.082+08:00Philippine Rice Industry: Facts and Figures<a name='more'></a><br />
<a class="articleSource" href="http://www.pinoyrkb.com/">Pinoy Rice Knowledge Bank</a><br />
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<tr> <td class="td1">Has palay production in the Philippines increased over the years?</td> <td class="td1">Yes. Palay Production in the Philippines has tripled from 5.32 million tons in 1970 to a peak of 16.82 million tons in 2008. However, a couple of strong typhoons caused a slight decline in palay production in 2009 to 16.26 million tons.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td class="td2">Has rice production increased?</td> <td class="td2">Rice production, parallel to palay production, has increased by three-fold from 3.34 million tons in 1970 to 10.57 million tons in 2008. </td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td1">What is the growth rate of palay and rice production?</td> <td class="td1">On average, from 2000 to 2009, palay production in the country increases annually by approximately 500 thousand tons while rice production increases by more than 300 thousand metric tons.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td2">How much rice has Philippines produced in 2009?</td> <td class="td2">In 2009, the Philippines produced a total of 10.22 million tons of rice based on a milling recovery rate of 62.85%.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td1">How much have irrigated, rainfed, and upland areas contributed in terms of palay production?</td> <td class="td1">In 2009, 74.3% of palay production or 12.08 M tons came from irrigated areas; 25.4% or 4.14 M tons from rainfed lowlands; and 0.3% or 0.05 M tons from rainfed uplands.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td2">At what time of the year is the growth rate higher in terms of rice production?</td> <td class="td2">The growth in production is higher during July-December which contributes 55% of the overall growth. The growth in production during January-June contributes the remaining 45%.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td1">What percent of the production growth comes from irrigated areas?</td> <td class="td1">71% of the production increase comes from irrigated area while the remaining 29% comes from rainfed lowland areas. These offset the decrease in production in rainfed upland area, which is declining by around 8000 tons per year since 2000.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td2">Why do we import rice?</td> <td class="td2">The Philippines’ area harvested to rice is very small compared with major rice producing countries in Asia. This is the major reason why we import rice. Although we say that we are an agricultural country, we do not have large land resource to produce our total rice requirement.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td1">How many million hectares are devoted to rice production in the Philippines?</td> <td class="td1">The Philippines have 4.46 million hectares devoted to rice production in 2008 while India has 44, China has 29.49, Indonesia has 12.31, Thailand has 10.25, and Vietnam has 7.41 M hectares.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td2">What is the ratio of population to area harvested in 2008?</td> <td class="td2">If we consider our population, we feed 20 persons per hectare of area harvested to rice. In contrast, Thailand and Vietnam, which are the major rice exporters in the world only feed 7 and 12 persons per hectare of area harvested, respectively. </td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td1">What is the land area distribution of different ecosystems in terms of palay production?</td> <td class="td1">3.05 million hectares are irrigated; 1.45 million hectares are rainfed lowland; and 0.02 million hectares are rainfed upland.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="td2">What is the growth rate of area harvested in the Philippines?</td> <td class="td2">Overall, rainfed upland areas decrease by nearly 7000 ha annually. This decline is offset by the increase in irrigated areas and rainfed lowland areas. The 68% of the increase in area harvested from 2000 to 2009 was due to increase in irrigated areas while 32% was due to increase in rainfed lowland areas.</td> </tr>
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<br />vazirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784421622615653320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-10608489890408908972012-06-29T22:42:00.001+08:002012-06-30T12:46:59.112+08:00Banaue Rice Terraces is removed from UNESCO's endangered list<br />
In 1995, the Banaue Rice Terraces was placed on the World Heritage Sites for its outstanding cultural landscape. Unfortunately in 2000, due to years of negligence it was placed in its list of world heritage sites in danger. And this year, on the 36th session of UNESCO at Russia has recognized the efforts done by the government and removed Banaue Rice Terraces from the endangered list.<br />
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</div><span class="createby"><a href="http://businessmirror.com.ph/component/content/article/53-agri-commodities/29212-unesco-removes-banaue-rice-terraces-from-endangered-list-" target="_blank">Estrella Torres and Jennifer A. Ng writes about it >>.</a></span>vazirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784421622615653320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265616867652903155.post-66889840271609860622011-01-05T18:02:00.001+08:002012-06-30T11:52:01.251+08:00The CompanyEstablished in 1945, VJ RICEMILL has been in the industry for quite a while, utilizing a mill that was built more than 60 years ago. It was a family business, handed down from one generation to the other, from AF SANTIAGO RICE MILL by Antonio F. Santiago (1st Generation) to MANECON RICE MILL by Marieta Santiago Querol (2nd Generation) and now managed by her son Vidal Eizzak Querol Jr. (3rd Generation). From first generation to 3rd generation supplying rice varieties and to which now caters to international companies, rice dealership, households, goverment institutions and vision to supply nationwide.<br />
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In the 90’s the company started to expand its business to include rice retailing operations. Now it has 12 retail outlets and dealership all over Bulacan, Metro Manila and Laguna.<br />
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VJ RICEMILL is a full-line supplier of the finest quality rice available. From our central <a href="http://www.vjricemill.com/p/map.html">location</a> in INTERCITY BOCAUE, where the agricultural hub of the Philippines lies. The company caters Rice Milling, Wholesale Trading, Supplying and Retailing. From rice farmer to our retail customers we have been known to foster fair trade.<br />
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Its operation is closely monitored from transport, storage, packaging and delivering, ensuring the client’s satisfaction. Our Ricemill has a spacious warehouse, operated by well trained and skilled staff who has been in the business also for decades now. It is well supervised with a strict quality control and inspection at every stage ensuring its products of a high standard.<br />
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