This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing … of paddy rice to procure from farmers to be able to defend its support price; how much volume of rice to maintain in … order to achieve stability in the supply and consumer price; and how much volume of rice, as well as when is the best time …

In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing … demand for rice. It is thus imperative for the government to develop a strategy that would ensure adequate supply and minimum … importation costs. One of the critical factors in import decisionmaking is rice production. The Inter-Agency Committee on Rice and …

the traditional to modern to futuristic - rice becomes all of these while traversing time in the Philippines. There is … prone - each kind serving as a wonderful display of dexterity from a tiny seed. Rice for full season farming and rice for …This paper introduces rice to the reader and analyzes the changes it has gone through these past 100 years in the …

The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice … the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a …

Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and … productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production …

market. If the Philippines is to achieve sustained, stable rice supply at low prices and at the same time promote rice …Using a political economy perspective, this paper establishes the strong relationship between rice and politics and … explains recent developments in the Philippine rice landscape. Results of the analysis show that the price of rice has been a …

This paper presents a summary of the evolution of major practices in rice production over the last 100 years in the …

This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino … administration to be food secure and self-sufficient in rice by 2016. Specifically, it aims to address the question: "Should the … government continue its efforts in increasing rice productivity to achieve food self-sufficiency, or should it focus instead on …

The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general … tariff on rice imports. Policy experiments indicate that while market reforms in rice lead to a reduction in the overall … reforms in rice bring about a reduction in consumer prices that is favorable to all, imports of rice surge and generate …