"It is a scandal to the world that Filipino farmers and fisher folk, the producers of our food, are the poorest and hungriest."

In recent years, however, our nation hasn’t been able to keep up with the agricultural modernization as compared to other parts of the world—and its effects are showing. 

It’s a crisis when majority of our 2.4 million rice farmers are suffering from the low 35-percent tariff under the Rice Tariffication Law (Republic Act No. 11203) which removes the regulation of imported and domestic rice in the country, various businesses have chosen to import crops from elsewhere due to its cheaper price.

With our rice farmers earning less than Php 200.00 a day, and palay (unhusked rice) being sold at a drastically low Php 7.00/kilo from the production cost of Php 12.00, our food providers can’t even provide for their daily living. 

As consumers, I urge you to care; and not only should you care, but you must also take action even through the simplest ways you can. LET US HELP THE FILIPONO FARMERS by flooding the social media with the situations that they are in in relation to the effect of the Rice Tarrification Law and its corresponding IRR, hoping that our government will see more and more the URGENCY OF THEIR CONDITION especially this time of pandemic.