MARLEN V. RONQUILLO
REPUBLIC Act (RA) 11203, or the “Rice Tariffication Law,” is the equivalent of a death sentence on the country’s 3 million small rice farmers. It is, from the realm of the personal — I come from a long line of small rice farmers — the worst law passed in the 21st century. This is also the collective sense of small rice farmers across the country. Except for the fake farmers in the LandBank advertorials, there is not one small farmer who favors the law.