THE Philippines’s unmilled rice output last year breached the 20-million metric ton mark—making it the highest volume on record—despite the over P2.5-billion damage caused by Typhoon Odette to the rice industry, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar said.
“In rice production, in spite of Typhoon Odette, in 2021 we will get a new record harvest surpassing the 2020 record harvest of 19.4 million metric tons,” he said. In the first week of January, the Department of Agriculture earlier estimated that palay output last year could have reached at least 19.95 MMT. The department arrived at the projection by combining the 12.55 MMT output recorded in the January to September period and the forecasted fourth-quarter harvest of at least 7.4 MMT.
“In all, the country’s rice industry is on the right track, as we observe the mid-term anniversary in March 2022 of the Rice Tariffication Law that saw implementation of the annual P10-billion RCEF support to rice farmers,” PIRP Director Dionisio Alvindia said in an earlier statement.
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