Chapter 2 Practical Research

Exploring divisoria market and asking Filipino buyers

perception about the price hike or rice grains

11 – HUMSS MAUNAWAIN
Danah Marie Pioquinto
Rhaive Ezikiel V. Pidlaoan
Ma. Kimberly M. Valle
Hans Albert Monte
Franz Meg Sangyahon
 The NFA or national food authority is one of the large sectors of the
government that runs our trade in the sale of rice and imports to other countries, but
the government found out that they are also the reason why the price of rice continues
to rise in our country. According to some News NFA is the reason why our local rice
prices are still expensive. Because they sell the local rices to big traders or big
companies that also sell rice because here those who buy local rices can also be sold
in local markets and they can increase its price. after all, the Philippines can achieve
25 per kilo of rice without these fraudsters. they prefer to sell the local rice to other
traders because they earn more from it, but the Filipino consumers are the ones who
suffer because of the stupidity they are doing. Filipinos are suffering because they
don't know that the rice they are buying is the same quality as other rice, but the
price is higher because it is said to be imported. after all, local rice can match the
quality of imported rice because the harvests of our local farmers are good, but
because of these fraudsters, the price of local rice continues to rise the thing is we
can, we probably have the capacity to produce sufficient enough for the population.
Like what I said before in my previous comment in a related thread, if we had the
same production numbers as we have today when the paper was written, the question
wouldn't be why we aren't self-sufficient, but why we aren't competitive. Imagine
how much it would've improved nearly 2 decades down the line if we were already
that productive in the past. However, production isn't just the issue, the biggest
jarring one is the cost (which is also the main point of the paper). Kudos to PNoy's
admin for trying to attempt at self-sufficiency, and Imo, they almost made it! We
were just 3% short at the best years they tried. Still, this attempt at self-sufficiency
actually pushed the prices up down the line, because as also mentioned by the paper,
our geographically challenged situation just makes production more expensive
(alongside all the inefficiencies with our agree and logistics). We really need to
import but I think we can minimize it to a certain point. Make it more cost-
competitive until we can transition rice farmers to places where it doesn't really make
too much sense to other jobs where we could be more productive.