By force of circumstance, there is now more attention given to rice. Recent news reports had a senator daring the National Food Authority to prove its worth as rice prices climb, followed by another one quoting executives of the Department of Agriculture admitting that 20 peso/kilo rice is difficult to attain. We have 110 million Filipinos eating rice and at least 2,400,000 small farmers planting rice. Rice is central to our lives as our staple food; it is also central to our political life because it is a perennial source of problems.

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