DR. WILLIAM DAR
I may sound like a broken record if I state it again (in this column) that farmers in the Philippines have been getting less and less of the wholesale prices for their produce. Let me cite again (as I have in my past columns) that rice farmers in the Philippines receive just 47 percent of the wholesale prices of their produce or palay (unmilled rice) directly from their farms, compared to 62 percent for their counterparts in India and 94 percent for farmers in China.