MARID Agribusiness Digest

[...] us anywhere. Questions why agri-products from China and far-away lands are able to penetrate local markets at competitive levels must be answered outside of the off-the-cuff reasons of government [...]

[...] . It is only then that we can head-off competition and be able to work on our own million hectares. We have the distinct home (court) advantage which foreign investors cannot take away from [...]

[...] Shipping Association which was then headed by Mr. Agustin Bengzon) and buyers of agricultural products, specially the wholesalers and retailers (which was then represented by Mr. Joey [...]

[...] Baños (UPLB), I was told of their disappointment over the seemingly wholesale invasion of agricultural products in the local market from China. This was coupled with the government plan to open a [...]

[...] poorest constituents. And despite the continuing assurances of government that there is no rice shortage, people are reacting more to a shortage scenario, coupled with pronouncement from military and [...]

[...] in a regime of rising cost of production. As I have always espoused, there are pockets of production areas that can still be brought into higher productive levels by working on the existing system. [...]

[...] producing top caliber agri-people. But the inability of the Philippines to elevate its agricultural productivity equal if not better than nearby countries somehow puts a dent in its image. Somewhere, [...]

[...] to guide local producers in their investment ventures and activities. Determination of competitive areas, now and in the future, must be known so that government interventions and programs [...]

[...] assurances of government that there is no rice shortage, people are reacting more to a shortage scenario, coupled with pronouncement from military and police authorities of raiding rice warehouses, [...]

[...] Chairman's Corner Angelito M . Sarmiento MARID Agribusiness Digest Vol. 19, No. 1, May 2008 In the news lately is the long queue of people buying NFA rice -- [...]

[...] into higher productive levels by working on the existing system. Identification of rice deficit areas and finding out why so can bring in solutions based on what exists at ground level. A [...]