I read an article at Manila Times today that talks about government's alternative plan to ease the tension of citizens regarding the looming food shortage. Or as they say if there ever really is a food shortage. (UH-HUH)
Instead of declaring a STATE of EMERGENCY, they plan alternatively to flood the market with basic commodities such as rice and flour. This move will prove to speculators that we really don't have any food shortage, y'all. In fact in bringing tons of rice and flour supplies now that would.... what...last for 2-3 months time?! There's something wrong about that. I'm not complacent about this alternative move at all.
Flour has gone expensive even before rice did. I still remember early last year there's been a debate on the radio regarding the increase in the pricing of PANDESAL. Well, it's just inevitable that aside from flour, cereals and rice would soon follow the trend.
Attaching is a quote from the report: "“The demand for flour is at four million bags a month, and according to the inventory submitted by the Philippine Association of Flour Millers, [we] have more than 10 million bags,” he said. A bag of flour weighs 25 kilograms." (Manilatimes)
But what the hell are they trying to prove this time? Fatten us up like pigs and kill us with inflation and starvation later? What they need to present are methods that the majority would approve of, something that really makes the food production sustainable. They should need to present and assure that certain technological advancements and agricultural development would spur the continuous flow of production. Or they should need to assure that they have grown strong trade ties with alternative exporters, and numbers keep coming in. Numbers and statistics of continuous growth are something we look for, not the sudden influx of basic commodities!
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