Opening comments at IRRI Press Conf. on Rice Price Crisis

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Uploaded by on Apr 15, 2008

On Friday evening (11 April) following the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the International Rice Research Institute -- http://www.irri.org -- Director General Robert Zeigler; Board Chair Elizabeth Woods (Australia); Philippine Secretary of Agriculture (and IRRI Board member) Arthur Yap; and Board members Mutsuo Iwamoto (Japan), Ruth Oniang'o (Kenya), Seong-Hee Lee (Korea), Achmad Suryana (Indonesia), and M. Syeduzzama (Bangladesh) held a press conference on the rice price and availability crisis with the major Philippine media, which came down from Manila for the specially arranged event.

"We don't have a food crisis but, rather, a rice price crisis," Secretary Yap said. "All of us are looking for innovative solutions in our countries--how to address not only the issue of supply but also the issue of prices, how to ensure that poor families can eat."

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  • anak ng anak kasi kayo eh... sa dami ba naman ng pinoy. like the say, it's supply and demand.

    also, matakaw kasi sa bigas... kaya hayan besides sa crisis marami pang diabetic. find way to reduce the population growth and rice use.

    sabihin sa mga kapamilya niyo, huwag anak ng anak. bawas at limit ang kain ng bigas. find other staple food.

    nasa sa inyo ang solution, hindi sa government.

  • Gising na Juan, wala ka ng makakaing Kanin

    Kahit na sa bansa mo ang mga pinakadalubhasa sa pag-aaral at pagtatanim ng Bigas

    Gobyerno binenta na ang lupa mo sa mga dayuhan.

    Ewan ko ba juan kung bakit nagtutulugtugan ka o wala ka lang talagang paki-alam. Siguro nga dahil nagpabayad ka sa nakaraang halalan.

    Dito sa panahon ng Tag-Gutom siguro Rebolusyon na lang ang magandang paraan. Dahil ang mga pinuno mo na walang paki-alam ay tuloy parin ang pagpapayaman.

    GUMISING KA!!! NGAYON NA!!!

  • hindi naman tlga mahal yan kung ang mga pilipino hindi maramihan kung gumawa ng bata,kung 2 o tatlo lang anak nila kasya na ang 1kilo mura na yun,kaso ang dami ng anak kay kailangan nila tlaga ng 1sako na bigas palagi,syempre mahal di pa makakaipon nghihirap pa,subukan kya nila wg mag anak masyado ang gaan ng pakiramdam pag kukonti lang pinapakain

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