Philippines to buy 200,000 tons of rice from Vietnam

Sa mga nagsasabing nasaan na ang sobra-sobrang supply nag bigas sa warehouse, sana mag-iisip tayo na hindi ito "BATO" na hindi nauubos at nakukunsumo, ilan ba ang populasyon natin para hindi maubos ang supply natin. Sabi nga sumubra ng humigit dalawang buwan na supply.

eto ang nakakapagtaka, ang vietnam, japan, indonesia and other foreign expert regarding rice production used to study here in phillippines in time of Marcos, pero sila ngayon magaganda ang production ng bigas, another plan na naman ni apo ang di natin napakinabangan, sa halip ibang bayan ang nakinabang, maybe because some people dont want to appreciate the good doings of Marcos to his country men, how sad...

Guys relax lang, dont too much jump into certain conclusion, mas maigi siguro kung hayaan muna natin ang mga expert kung anong dapat gawin, at ang mga nakaupo lingid sa ating kaalaman ay ito ang kanilang mga expertise, law of economics, to control prices of certain commodities, di ganun kadali yun na sa pagkaupo ni pinoy ay ganun ganun na lang kaagad na iasa sa philippine farming ang pag supply ng bigas sa buong Pilipinas, there is always a risk, we always keep telling that Phil is great in agriculture thats right, because of great climate and flat land, but dealing with production, it always have a certain expenses, and risk, example dito, pede tayo magtanim sa ating lupain example upon harvesting, 200,000 tons of rice ang possible na mahaharvest, pero there is always a risk, pag dumaan ang isang malaking catastrophic typhoon sa area, and 200,000 tons of rice ay mawawala, kasama ang expenses, at kalakip nito ang possible scarcity of resources, law of economics na naman "if the demmand is high price will rise" unlike if we import it from foreign supplier, may assurance ang phil govt na maiiwasan natin ang scarcity, kung may konting kakulangan man di ganun kalaki ang itataas ng presyo", and kung mapapansin nyo bilang consumer, na mismong mga sibuyas at bawang na dito sa pilipinas hinarvest ang taas taas ng presyo, maging mga pangunahing bilihin na dito sa atin nangaling ang taas ng presyo, like rice, chicken, pork, beef, ingredients, its simply because of law of economics, "kulang ang supply, mataas ang demmand, tataas ang presyo", kaya ang role ng Import is to control the supply plus the assurance na di magkukulang ang supply para sa atin, ang mahirap sa karamihan sa atin mga supplier Kalahi mo na ginugulangan pa tayo kaya taas taas ng presyo, kaya its always good na may mediator, or may other source of supply, its a competition, pag bumaba ang bigay ni supplier A kelangan magbaba ng presyo si supplier B, thats I think what government plan to do, and try to test it on yourself, punta ka ng palengke, tignan mo presyo ng karneng manok, then punta ka ng SM supermarket compare it....minsan mas mura pa sa supermarket kesa sa palengke.. kc di naman lahat ng karne ng supermarket local supplier, mas nabili nila ng mura sa pagimport kaya mas mura nila ibinebenta, less cost kung baga, except sa mga primary ingredient, kc mga primary ingredient mostly local distributor nanggaling...

and mungkahi ko lang sana mas lalong pag aralan ng IRRI na maimprove ang tibay ng ating mga pananim, at ang bilis ng paglaki nito, at ang NIA or National Irrigation Authority, dagdagan po ninyo ang inyong proyekto sa mga major sakahan ng bansa, at sana mapababa ninyo ang billing ng inyong serbisyo sa mga may ari ng sakahan, ng sa ganun di ganun kataas na ibenta nila ang kanilang produktong pang -agrikultura/

Our government buys 200,000 tons of rice from other countries which is more or less $580usd / tonne.
USD to PHP xchange rate is $1 = 43.45php
So that's 25,201php / tonne * 200,000 = 5,040,200,000php (5 billion pesos tax payer's money)

Since the price of the rice is not written in this article, the government will then declare that 200k tonnes of rice will cost 5.5billion pesos. In short 5,000,000,000php tax payer's money goes to the rice while 500,000,000php goes to the pocket of our government. Luma na yan.

We have vast track of land in the province...because we are TAMAD, they are not cultivated for rice.... Don't blame other people or the government if you are miserable.

Wla ata yan si PNoy eh..di yan makapagdisesyon. kailangan pa ata ng tulong mula sa mga sumakabilang buhay na. akala ko pa naman, kahit di siya ang binoto ko, may pag-asa sa kanya...
yun pala hanggang asa nalang. asan na ang matuwid na daan na ipinangako? muka yatang naloko ang mga pilipino, kasi ang matuwid nadaan marami ang mga kaskaserong motorista dyan, naku, inggat tayo, baka tayo ay masagasaan.

who benefits from this ? akala ko ba maraming surplus sa nfa bodega na nabubulok lang. di pa nga naimbestigahan kung sino liable doon, eto na naman tayo, hahay. pnoy talaga

This is sad. Philippines used to be one of the biggest producer of rice. What happened?

kaya tau nag iimport ng bigas dahil lahat ng agricultural lands natin ay nagawa ng mga subdivision, industrial estates at golf course.....maling patakaran ng gobyerno ang nan----ayari... ang Amerika, Japan, South Korea, Thailand inuna muna nila ang kanilang agricultural sufficiency bago ang INDUSTRIAL Revolution nila, maling PRIORIDAD ang nan----ayari sa atin, ako ay naniniwala na ang bansang may sapat na agriculture at food security ay isang malakas na bansa hindi na tau kailangan pang lumayo ang magsasakang amerikano ay isa sa pinakamayaman sa Amerika

The plains of Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon and Ilocos Regions are fertile irrigated lands
and the harvest of our farmers in these regions are purchased by private firms at low prices 10-15 pesos per kilo, why not the Goverment buy them all at our NFA warehouses.
We need to patronize our own, buying their yields encourages them to be efficient and produce more while buying from abroad truly lowers the demand on rice yet its disheartening to our farmers that the product of their livelihood is just one of the choices of the goverment.

Imagine that every year our country spends more than 5,000,000,000php (tax payer's money) on importing rice. While you can do lot of things with 5 billion pesos like: building/improving schools in the province, build infrastructures, roads, power plants or even upgrade the local agriculture of the country so that we won't have to import rice again. This is a proof that our government is a bunch of imbecilic / incompetent retards.

Why not quantify the local volume produce by our farmers before importing.During the previous administration I've experience selling a cavan of palay for just 600 pesos because of over supply of imported rice.My two hectares of rice field income merely covers my expenses for the season.
What will happen to my family? The favored private importers rake more than enough for their needs.Hope the Department of Agriculture will look into this, if not I think, still " BALUKTOT NA LANDAS"

Sa pagkakaalam ko ang mga bansa kung saan tayo nag import ng bigas ngayon ay sa atin rin dati nag aral ng strateheya sa pagtanim at pagpalagu ng palay. Ngayon sa kanila na tayo nag import, ano ba nan----ari sa atin? Ang Pinas ang nagturo kung pano magtanim at ngayon Pinas bibili ng ani sa tinuruan. I been out from Pinas for quite sometimes, I'm proud to be a Fil but there are times I feel uneasy to hear some remarks about us such: Feelipino - grease money if you process some papers, once we are barred in some countries dahil sa kalukuhan natin, we tolerate bad habits that we even tolerate corruption in our government offices, but we complaint why most of our people in the government offices are corrupt. I think we have to learn how to be honest and lets start it first with ourselves. No corrupt government officials if we don't allow them to corrupt us.

kya puro shortage na ang pinas kc most of the farmers ayaw ng magsaka kc naman ang mga trader binabarat ang ani ng mga farmer kya puro lugi ang farmer mas ginugusto pa nila na magsaudi nalang kumita ng 10t sa isang buwan kesa magsaka ng palay ng 4 na buwan then ang kita is 10-20t lang sa apat na buwan kc naman mura ang kuha ng gobyerno kc pinapasukan din ng import at pulitika.kelan kaba magigicing pilipinas. mauubos na lahat ng matatalino kasi nsa ibang bansa na sila lahat at useless then ishare ang knowledge sa bansang wala naman suporta galing sa gobyerno. ibenta mo nalang sa ibang bansa ang talino ni juan makikinabang pa ang taombayan at pamilya ni juan. hindi na uso ang bayani, matagal ng patay si baliw na jose rizal.practical na ang buhay ngayon.di na uso ang bayani. magicing kna sana Juan Dela Cruz.

this is not really a good news.. taon taon na yata import tayo. I think the DA should change its policy of importation to self-sufficiency. kaya naman nating mag produce talaga, if farmers will be supported to enable them to do 2-3 croppings a year like vietnam and thailand. totoong na rereduce ang ating rice land due to land conversion, but still we have enough area to feed our population. if the present administration cannot do it... wala na talagang tuwid na landas.

why should we still import rice? we are the bastion of agriculture scientists. Can we not make a permanent remedy? Why not make the highland productive by supporting inorganic farming?

let us see why we lack rice: our prime lands for agriculture are planted with buildings, our fertilizers are pocketed, our scientists get more if they work for other lands, our farms are drying. we need a holistic approach to this problem. importation is not the solution!

wa! how many tons of rice the philippines is exported to other countries. after exporting we import. where is the logic there?

Kaya kulang tayo sa bigas dahil masyado na tayo madami... Kailangan na ang family planning na tinututulan ng simbahang Katoliko... Mag isip naman tayo panahon pa ng Kastila cnu ba nagpapahirap sa atin hehehehe

Alcala does'nt know what he's doing ....He is killing his own rice program ,...by importing rice surplus from other country . This means only one thing- Local rice produce will be under sold and will be forced to to compete and lower the price ,..and lowering the local price of rice will mean a very low profit for local farmers ,...Slowly the rice Farming community is dying ,..Alcala has cut-off subsidy on Good seeds for the Farmers ,..they give away so called mechanical dryers that is being used now by private groups and charging farmers enormous Fee to dry their palay,..