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 …

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 … variability, rice production forecast is becoming more uncertain. Inaccurate production forecasts could lead to incorrect volume …

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 …

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 … well-being. Rice self-sufficiency on the other hand, was found to be positively correlated with food security and per …

) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining farmers’ response to incentives …

Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and … studies indicated that the adverse effects of the food price hike in Bangladesh were primarily manifested by the significant … rise in the number of households falling below the poverty line income. At the political front, Bangladesh was run by an …

-firm Cournot oligopsony/oligopoly that acts as the counterfactual. Using Japanese market price and quantity data for rice, and … the existing import regime for rice, which is a tariff quota. The conclusions are: first, that, compared with the …

This paper introduces rice to the reader and analyzes the changes it has gone through these past 100 years in the …. Landrace rice, pureline selection rice, crossbred rice, semidwarf rice, hybrid rice, new plant type rice, designer rice - from … the traditional to modern to futuristic - rice becomes all of these while traversing time in the Philippines. There is …