Soaring cost of rice makes life harder for Davao’s poor
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE
Families are having a hard time coping with the increasing price of rice amidst the reported local and global supply shortage.
Planting Rice Is Never Fun. Now that rice prices almost double and rice supply continue to dwindle, militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas in Southern Mindanao agitate for increased NFA procurement of local rice and for government to dismantle existing rice cartel. More pictures here.
(davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Davao consumers balk at high rice price
A young woman frowns at the sight of surging prices of rice, a kilo of which costs only 24 pesos, as of March 18, when this picture is taken. NFA…
Mothers, kids bewail high price of rice
Teresita Edir, a pushcart vendor in Agdao market, and her children join a recent march organized by the group Kadamay demanding the ouster of President Arroyo. Edir complains that her earnings could hardly buy a kilo of rice. "In Erap's time, we could buy rice at P10 a kilo," she recalls the time of former President Joseph Estrada. "Now, rice is P18 per kilo under Gloria! With a president like her, life only gets harder. She's corrupt and she has not done anything to alleviate the situation of poor." (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Disease-causing toxin found in Davao, Gensan rice
The US FDA defines aflatoxin as toxic compounds produced by certain strains of the aspergillus fungus; it is toxic and carcinogenic. Exposure to high level of aflatoxin, according to the DOST, produces acute necrosis or tissue death, as well as cirrhosis and carcinoma of the liver.
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