Few years back, rice pricing is still acceptable to farmers unlike today, where it gone down to 12-14 pesos per kilo (depending on variety -ramble or long grain). Despite of exorbitant amount incurred in planting rice that includes manpower, seedlings, fertilizers, molluscicides and pesticides/herbicides, farmers are forced to continue to strive and bite the bullet in the hope that eventually things will normalized in the next few years.
Not known to everyone, the problem is brought by the global trading affecting both production ad selling.
With the government's program to provide loan assistance to farmers, one might think that this would be the solution to augment the operational cost. Hence, lessen the impact of cheap rice selling price. It's too good to be true the mentioned assistance (though insignificant enough to help the small farmers) has one big downfall -implementation and monitoring. The government allocated enough budget for all farmers who passed criteria on land area being tilled. However on municipal side, they only allocate budget to a few farmers using an outdated master list. Farmers who already sold their land still enjoyed the program . Filipinos' "Malasakit" tradition just really lost. No one from barangay cared about updating the said master list of farmers and land owners.
The same impact also affect seedling assistance distribution.
Not known to everyone, the problem is brought by the global trading affecting both production ad selling.
With the government's program to provide loan assistance to farmers, one might think that this would be the solution to augment the operational cost. Hence, lessen the impact of cheap rice selling price. It's too good to be true the mentioned assistance (though insignificant enough to help the small farmers) has one big downfall -implementation and monitoring. The government allocated enough budget for all farmers who passed criteria on land area being tilled. However on municipal side, they only allocate budget to a few farmers using an outdated master list. Farmers who already sold their land still enjoyed the program . Filipinos' "Malasakit" tradition just really lost. No one from barangay cared about updating the said master list of farmers and land owners.
The same impact also affect seedling assistance distribution.
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