President Marcos targets 97.4% rice self-sufficiency within five years, says this is enough to feed all Filipinos.
MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved the Masagana Rice Industry Development Program on Wednesday, May 31, during the Rice Industry Convergence Meeting at the National Irrigation Administration in Quezon City.
“It is essentially a roadmap to the eventual goal of reaching 97.4% self-sufficiency for rice,” explained Marcos in an ambush interview at another event on the same day. “[A]t 97% masasabi na natin mapapakain na natin lahat ng ating mga kababayan ng may sapat na bigas and supply,”The roadmap is supposed to boost local rice production and prioritize “the welfare of Filipino farmers” as well as provide higher income for them.
To reach self-sufficiency, the sector must also update farming technologies. Introducing new technology to farmers is also a way to make the sector more inviting for younger people. Marcos admitted, “[T]here are new technologiesDuring the meeting, various strategies to implement MRIPD were identified, namely: climate change adaptation, farm clustering, consolidation of intervention, value chain approach, and digital transformation. to bring down rice prices to as low as P20 per kilo.
Since he took over as agriculture chief, Marcos was set on reimplementing the agricultural program from his father’s days, the Masagana 99, now refurbished as the
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