‘Folly’ to stop rice imports – Duterte

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:39:41 +0000

It would be a “folly” to stop the importation of rice given the potential impact of natural calamities on the country’s local production, President Duterte declared yesterday.

According to the President, rice importation must continue to help ensure stable supply since it was hard to predict the onslaught of typhoons and other conditions brought by climate change on the domestic harvest.

“Now to say that you stop importation just because they are going to produce a projected number that would be a folly because I said we are the window to the Pacific Island,” he said during his visit to Sarangani.

“There is never a way of knowing how much typhoon would ravage our plant, including our rice land, and whether there would be a good harvest or not so delikado na sabihin mo,” he said.

The President earlier ordered the suspension of rice importation during the harvest seaso
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