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Sunday, April 06, 2008 |
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SPECIAL
REPORT:
FOOD SECURITY |
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Rice-crisis driven resolve to nourish agri sector to
propel big leap forward |
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New programs boost
GMA |
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By Rene Q. Bas, Editor in
Chief
THE P40-billion-plus worth of
agriculture-sector development programs announced by President
Gloria Arroyo at Clark last Friday—most of which respond
positively to the demands and recommen-dations of farm groups,
technical experts and nationalist economists—are expected by
political and business observers to result in a great leap forward
for the Philippine economy as a whole.
And in a boost for President
Arroyo’s image.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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‘Govt ignored
signs of local, int’l rice crisis’
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Farmers accuse the Arroyo
administration of having deliberately ignored signs of economic
danger posed by a looming rice crisis.
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Rice crisis
‘imminent’ a long time ago
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It is quite ironic that the
Philippines, with its Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice)
and host to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), has
never been rice self-sufficient for the most part of the last 20
years.
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Conversion of rice
fields created rice shortage
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In the Central Luzon plains,
Nueva Ecija is unique. In this farming province, the biggest rice
producer in this region, you see rows upon rows of rice paddies.
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People’s Food
Summit seeks radical reforms
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Some 300 leaders of farm
organizations, labor unions, economics professors and economists and
representatives of civil society—including the Church—who held a
People’s Food Summit...
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