The Manila Times

Abolish the NFA

- ROUGH TRADE Kritz

- - posed the abolition of the National - food security and stabilizin­g the price of rice. It is an idea that doesn’t consumer advocates. Yet it is an idea

money; it has an accumulate­d protest against Evasco’s proposal on Wednesday— that they had - should be as reasonably close to self-sustaining as possible.

- tradictory mandate. To stabilize - emergency supplies for disaster

subsidy agency; a mechanism by money the government budgets for rice subsidies is distribute­d. If it is not simply abolished out - its true nature.

Whether the government should be subsidizin­g rice prices is a critical commodity; it consti - - tive social strategy; it helps many small farmers maintain at least a eases the food price burden on - a detrimenta­l economic model as

- purchased from farmers by millers

That should not be permitted to monetary policy and inflation NFA pricing policy is coordinate­d introducin­g an uncontroll­ed vari all the other components a little - ers buy is higher than advertised.

be far simpler and probably to limit the subsidy to either the supply side or the demand - through price support to farm diffused and have a negligible impact. The more complicate­d subsidized rice from the consumer

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