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An inclusive irrigation development program that involves stakeholders’ participation and their expertise and methodologies will be beneficial t..
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FARMERS have exaggerated the revenue losses resulting from rice tariffication, a government think tank said, adding that any such losses can be made u..
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Passed in 2019, the Rice Tariffication Law (Republic Act [RA] 11203) aims to reduce the price of the country’s key staple. It also mandates an annua..
Policy Notes
The government should come up with a comprehensive and integrated approach to improve the country’s irrigation systems. Raul Montemayor, na..
Press Releases
QUEZON CITY, Feb. 9 -- The government should come up with a comprehensive and integrated approach to improve the country’s irrigation syst..
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MANILA, Philippines — Tariff authorities are now looking into proposals to increase the importation of food to stem the rise of prices, which ha..
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MANILA, Philippines — More economists are urging greater importation in view of expensive food that jacked up the inflation rate to a two-year h..
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For a number of years, I taught a course on development theories, including economic growth models, at the doctoral program level at UP Los Bañ..
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THE Department of Agriculture’s (DA) petitions to lower tariffs on pork and rice face an uphill battle ahead of the Tariff Commission (TC) heari..
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Crop production has been improving the in the Philippines even during the pandemic. However, Filipino farmers still remain poor — many of them e..
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IN his article of Jan. 21, 2021 in The Manila Times (“Modern-day Cassandras proven wrong on RTL”), columnist Fermin Adriano claimed that c..
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'Farmers are not stupid. At some point, they will scale down their production or move out of rice farming altogether if they continue losing money.'In..
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The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) will hold a virtual launch for its newest book titled “Revitalizing Philippine Irrigatio..
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Some are claiming that critics of the rice tariffication law (RTL) were dismally wrong in predicting a decline in planted area and production as a res..
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