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Mga magsasaka ang lugi kung itutuloy ni Pangulong Bongbong Marcos ang planong rice importation deal sa Vietnam.  Ayon sa ilang farmers' group, bukod sa malapit na ang malawakang anihan wala rin naman daw itong maitutulong sa presyo ng bigas.  Ipaliliwanag 'yan ni Currie Cator.   Visit our website for more #NewsYouCanTrust: https://www.cnnphilippines.com/  Follow our social media pages:  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnnphilippines/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines

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00:00 the need to import rice.

00:02 This is what some groups of farmers

00:04 have been advocating.

00:06 On the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit

00:08 in Indonesia,

00:10 President Marcos said that

00:12 he is open to a five-year

00:14 importation deal from Vietnam.

00:16 The Agriculture Chief also asked

00:18 for more broad guidelines

00:20 on the import of rice

00:22 from Cambodia

00:24 due to the threat of drought.

00:26 According to the Association of

00:28 the Philippines' Agriculture and

00:30 Agriculture Authority,

00:32 the Philippines has sufficient

00:34 supply and the harvest season

00:36 is also near.

00:38 "There is no problem if the

00:40 lion is a buffer stock,

00:42 but if it is an unlimited importation,

00:44 for the past five years,

00:46 it has not helped to lower the price."

00:48 Almost 90 percent of the country's

00:50 imported rice comes from Vietnam.

00:52 It also did not stop.

00:54 Until just this

00:56 August,

00:58 1.97 million metric tons

01:00 of rice came from Vietnam.

01:02 The DA also said

01:04 that the local supply

01:06 will not be a problem.

01:08 "Based on our projections,

01:10 the supply will be sufficient

01:12 2.92 million metric tons

01:14 by the end of October 2020."

01:16 The groups of farmers

01:18 also pointed out that

01:20 the price of rice is also

01:22 falling in the global market.

01:24 It is estimated that

01:26 each metric ton of rice

01:28 from Vietnam is worth

01:30 P630 or P35,000

01:32 compared to P400

01:34 in 2022.

01:36 According to the

01:38 Philippine Agriculture Authority,

01:40 if the government has

01:42 spending on imports,

01:44 why not just rely on

01:46 the help of farmers?

01:48 "The question is,

01:50 where is the priority of your money?

01:52 Is it to increase

01:54 the rice production

01:56 in five years?

01:58 Yes, we should increase

02:00 the local production

02:02 of rice and rice in the country."

02:04 It also said that

02:06 the government's

02:08 tariff on rice imports will not help.

02:10 The KMP added that

02:12 it is better to suspend

02:14 the Rice Tarification Law

02:16 and allow the National Food Authority

02:18 or NFA to sell rice

02:20 to the consumers

02:22 instead of just

02:24 being a buffer stock.

02:26 "We have been in a low

02:28 rice tariff for three years.

02:30 From 2021 until now,

02:32 the price of rice has not dropped

02:34 because our farmers

02:36 have really suffered.

02:38 So we are wondering

02:40 why we should go back

02:42 to the old problem

02:44 of unlimited importation

02:46 where there is no benefit

02:48 for them."

02:50 The government is expecting

02:52 to import 7 million metric tons of rice

02:54 by December,

02:56 which is expected to last until the first quarter of 2024.

02:58 Kary Kay Tor, CNN Philippines.

03:00 CNN Films.

Mga grupo ng magsasaka: 'Di kailangang mag-angkat ng bigas | News Night

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