Discontinue importation, strengthen local rice production – KMP

Filipino farmers urged the administration to discontinue “costly” importation and strengthen the country’s local rice production.

Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) plans to import more rice to “buffer the stock” affected by the recent onslaught of tropical cyclone Karding will only bring harm to the Philippine economy.

“Importing more volume of rice at this period of the Philippine pes