The Department of Agriculture (DA) has resurrected its rice self-sufficiency target three months after Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the Philippine government prefers to measure the country’s rice adequacy level amid a liberalized regime.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has resurrected its rice self-sufficiency target three months after Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the Philippine government prefers to measure the country’s rice adequacy level amid a liberalized regime.
In a statement, Dar said that amid the tightening global food supply due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, his agency is now bent to raise the country’s rice sufficiency level from 87 percent to 93 percent by the end of this year.
To recall, it was just in January when Dar said the country will no longer measure the country’s rice self-sufficiency status and will instead refer to it as rice adequacy level.
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