Agri lobby group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) has scored the Duterte administration over plans to scrap farmers’ protection from cheap imported rice, saying the removal of the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice imports will not result in lower prices of the staple food, even as the government remains firm in its decision to let the import limitation expire next June.
In a statement, Sinag Chairperson Rosendo So said the liberalization of the agriculture sector since the mid 90’s saw the dumping of agriculture imports but it did not result in the lowering of prices of most, if not all, agriculture products.
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