07-26-2013, 12:43 AM
haikuman wrote:
Your above statement seems very unclear and I am not sure where you are getting your data
Once again you provide an excessive amount of verbage that says nothing.
As I stated above, I spent a day at CLSU where I met with professors focused on rice production in the Philippines. I also spoke with people in the supply chain: middlemen who buy palay from the farmers selling it to the millers and millers who buy from the middlemen, process the rice and bring it to market.
While I'm sure IRRI is doing good work, this is not what I'm hearing from the people involved in rice production in central Luzon. The imported rice costs anywhere from 2 to 3 times the cost of local rice and much of that is kept in place by politicians profiteering off of the import of foreign rice.
the bottom line is that the farmer is still making next to nothing on their labor for rice.
But I did do a quick google search about cost of rice in the Philippines and you can get a 50 kilo sack of rice delivered door to door for $52 - that's $1.05 per kilo - and that's being shipped in from Palawan.
http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+c...ck+of+rice&event=Search+Ranking,Position,1-7,7
I don't see why anyone in the Philippines would need to order rice from outside the country - especially if it's rice grown in the Philippines.