Philippines has been experiencing insufficient supply of rice for the past few years. Although it is an agricultural country in nature, it still imports rice from places like Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia, which contributes to how the prices are being set. Population growth is one of the causes why the country experiences rice shortage as well as the natural calamities that hit the Philippines in the recent years, which caused a slight decline to the production of rice. Not to mention, that such practice like wasteful consumption of rice also adds to the cause of rice insufficiency in the country.
Rice is a staple food in Filipino diet. Filipinos still choose rice despite new varieties of food choices. It is also good for the body for it has vitamins like E for replenishing the skin, B vitamins to support and increase the rate of metabolism, zinc for immune function as well as carbohydrates, which supply the body with energy. These health benefits are important for the daily activities of Filipinos. Moreover, rice has no cholesterol and it is low in calorie.
As previously stated, the Philippines is an agricultural country. One of its main products is rice, which makes it economically important. Rice can be seen everywhere sold in the different types of markets whether it is small or big. For many farmers, it is their only source of income. The demand for this commodity is not only for a certain social class, but for everyone. It is also exported to other countries in the world economy. However, the Philippines does not have enough land resources to plant and provide rice crops for the people compared to other major rice producing countries in Asia so it still remains to be a rice dependent country. Infrastructure like irri...
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...res. Next is Western Visayas with a total production of 2.2 million metric Tons of palay with also 600 00 hectares of area of production. Southern Mindanao’s palay production reached 500 000 metric tons and with an area of 199 000 hectares while Northern Mindanao has 600 00 metric tons with only 150 000 hectares. (Bureau of Agriculture Statistics, 2011). The total production of rice in the Philippines was up to 16.68 million metric tons in the year 2011. This number has decreased from its highest peak in 2008 from 16.82 million metric tons because of the natural calamities that hit the places in Central Luzon, which resulted to a mild effect in decrease of output. (Bureau of Agriculture Statistics, 2008)
On the other hand, the consumption of rice continues to go up together with the increasing population of the country and decreasing production of rice.
In the first chapter of the book the author discusses a brief world history and evolution of rice crops. It is interesting to see that even though parts of Africa had their own rice crop variety, the globalization of rice crop Oryza Sativa has been slowly replacing the African variety. The author also starts
In, The Population Bomb by, Paul R Ehrlich, he explains the problem of population increase, and how there are people everywhere! The feeling of feeling over populated. He talks about how if there are more people then there is more food that needs to be produced then ate. He explains on the rich people becoming wealthier and the poor are going to be even poorer and there is going to be a starvation. Population is doubling every year and how our energy is turning into
Almost half of the production cost incurred by a farmer came from the feeds supply. The increase in prices of commercial feed as well as the basic ingredients like corn is been experiencing by the swine producers. Also, prices of vital feed ingredients, notably US and Argentine soybean meal and Peruvian fishmeal, have also gone up due to foreign currency fluctuation. Philippine peso
The lack of an intersection between the food production (people fed) and population is present because of the country’s aforementioned high rates of undernourishment. The lower number of “people fed” on our graph coincides with statistics revealing that 25.2% of Nepal’s population is currently living below the poverty line. Even though 68% of the country’s population is actively involved in agriculture, their food production still does not meet the needs of their growing population, and for this reason, the models used accurately depict the data at hand. This juxtaposition of the exponential and linear models displays the recent situation of food insecurity in Nepal: the population is continuing to grow at an exponential rate, and the rate of agricultural production has no way to sustain this increase in population. This explains why the trend lines are growing further apart and a point of intersection (where food production surpasses the needs of the population) does not seem likely to occur given the projected values.
... the large market size and the increase in demand, it is obvious that crude palm oil can be a significant source of economic benefits for Indonesia. The palm oil industry contributes to regional development. Palm oil represents a huge economic opportunity for the myriad numbers of smallholders, as more than 6.6 million tons of palm oil in Indonesia is produced by smallholders. The industry provides jobs for a large number of Indonesia’s rural population. It is estimated that in 2006 almost 2 million people worked in the Indonesian palm oil industry.
Secondly, rice is such an adaptive crop that it is not impossible to successfully grow it in different environments where crops could not have been grown successfully- from swampy valleys and deltas to hot, dry land above the floods and even in the mountain forests (Piper 1993:1).
With its tropical climate, heavy rainfall, and naturally fertile soil, the Philippines is predominantly agricultural. It also has other industries that help boosts its economy: textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, wood products, food processing, electronics assembly, petroleum refining, and fishing.
The first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived from the land bridge from Asia over 150,000 years ago. Throughout the years, migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other parts of Asia made their way to the islands of this country. In the fourteenth century, the Arabs arrived and soon began a long tradition of Islam. Many Muslims are still living in the Philippines today.
The agricultural land of Pakistan is use for multiple crops like wheat, rice, sugarcane, vegetables, cotton, etc. That gives impure and low quality cotton. There is very low research & development (R&D) in the cotton sector. Because of the low profitability in cotton crops, farmers are shifting to other cash crops, such as sugar cane.
As a part of the liberalization policy of the government, the fertilizer trade was deregulated in the year 1986. Even though the fertilizer subsidies had contributed significantly to the increase in fertilizer consumption and higher agricultural yield, it was put on hold from 1998. A policy which provided import duty incentives was implemented in 1997. This policy allowed duty exemption for fertilizer shipments. From the year 1999, fertilizer imports by cooperatives, farmers’ associations and other entities directly involved in agriculture were given complete exemption from VAT (Alcala 2012). The fertilizer requirements of Philippines are met from domestic production, imports as well as fertilizer grants from countries like Japan. Policy to popularise the use of organic fertilizers has also been implemented (Bunoan-olegario
The Rice Mortgage Scheme began after Yingluck Shinwatra took position of the Prime Minister. As it was first stated as the policy of the Parliament at 23 August 2011. The main subject of the Scheme is to raise agricultural products in a stable manner and to build more marketing channels and gain authority to negotiate the rice price. The mortgage price depends on the type of rice. White rice with 25% moisture priced at 15,000 Baht per ton, Jasmine Rice at 20,000 Baht per ton and Glutinous Rice or Sticky Rice is worth 18,000 Baht per ton. Yingluck’s parliament appointed to The National Rice Policy Committee is responsible for determining the type, quality, quantity and duration. The pledging only offers for 5 types of paddy, In-season rice, Jasmine Rice Paddy, PathumThani Paddy, Sticky Rice Paddy. The scheme increases the income of farmers in two ways. Firstly, the farmers who participated in the scheme .Secondly, the farmers that are not in the scheme but have a surplus of rice production will be able to sell price at a higher price.
...earch and extension, rural infrastructure, and market access for small farmers. Rural investments have been sorely neglected in recent decades, and now is the time to reverse this trend. Farmers in many developing countries are operating in an environment of inadequate infrastructure like roads, electricity, and communications; poor soils; lack of storage and processing capacity; and little or no access to agricultural technologies that could increase their profits and improve their livelihoods. Recent unrest over food prices in a number of countries may tempt policymakers to put the interests of urban consumers over those of rural people, including farmers, but this approach would be shortsighted and counterproductive. Given the scale of investment needed, aid donors should also expand development assistance to agriculture, rural services, and science and technology.
Philippines: Country Profile 2004 1 Dec. 2004 The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2004 15 Dec. 2004 www.eiu.com
Agricultural sector is the major contributor in the GDP of Pakistan. It contributes around 20.9% to the country’s GDP and provides employment to around 67% of the people to the rural population. Our agriculture sector supplies raw material to the industrial sector especially the textiles industries, the largest industrial sub-sector of the economy. In this perspective, any shift in the agricultural income can affect the economy as well as the rural population of the country.
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