The problem is beginning to appear and the people are worried of what might happen in the next days, weeks or months. Experts have hinted that there is a looming rice shortage given the idea that the price of rice went up unannounced.
The rice cartels have succeeded in their grand design to make it hard for the Filipino people after the buying price of rice shoot up to its highest level. In just a span of weeks, the price of rice changed fast and stunned the public especially the poor majority. The government and the scheming rice traders decided to go along with the new pricing dictated by big and untouchable rice cartels.
The government and the Department of Agriculture blamed last year’s calamities and the low rice imports from Thailand and Vietnam, two of the world’s leading rice exporters. And they assured the public that no impeding rice shortage and the price adjustment is only normal for a country who imports rice. But senators and other private entities disapproved the government report. They questioned the timing of price increase and said that if there’s sufficient rice why the sudden increase of the staple food of the masses?
Clearly the government, DA, NFA, rice hoarders and traders are doing nothing to mitigate or ease the problem that already hit hard the masses.