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Some farmers are now refusing to plant rice and vegetables as rising production costs push them deeper into losses.


Mav Gonzales reports.


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00:00Mga kapuso, magtanim ay hindi biro, pero mas nagkanda kuba pa rin ngayon sa gastos ang mga magsasaka dahil nalulugi
00:09na sa halaga pa lamang ng produksyon.
00:10Kaya ang ilang mga magsasaka, umano, ayaw na magtanim ng bigas at gulay.
00:15Ang tanong, paano ang supply ng bansa?
00:18Iyan ang tinutukan ni Mav Gonzalez.
00:25Ayaw na rin magtanim ng ilang magsasaka dahil sa mahal ng gastos sa produksyon, bunsod ng gulo sa Middle East.
00:31Sabi ng kilusang magbubukid ng Pilipinas sa pagdinig ng Senate Committee on Agriculture kanina,
00:37bukod sa subsidiya, dapat bilihin ng gobyerno ang mga ani nila.
00:42Magtatanim na lang sila para sa kanilang pagkain.
00:45Dadagdag po yan sa magiging problema natin lahat.
00:49Kaya panawagan din namin na palakasin ang lokal na produksyon at huwag tayong umasa sa importasyon.
00:56Anila, nung nakaraang taon, umabot sa 60,000 hanggang 90,000 pesos ang gastos sa produksyon.
01:02Kaya anong magagawa ng 5,000 pisong ayuda?
01:06Para sa amin ay hindi sapat yung 5,000, hindi sapat yung 3,000.
01:10Higit lalo hindi sapat yung two bags of fertilizer na binabanggit ng DA.
01:15Para sa mga magsasaka, kailangan na talaga namin ng direct intervention ng gobyerno.
01:20Sa pamamagitan ng 50,000 pesos, support subsidy sa bawat magsasaka.
01:26At sa 3 milyon magsasaka, kailangan nyo yan ng 150 bilyon.
01:33Saan kukunin ito?
01:34Meron 200 bilyon na unprogrammed fund.
01:37Bakit hindi gamitin sa produksyon?
01:40Bakit aasa pa tayo sa pag-iimport?
01:42Malaking problema kung tumigil magtanim ang mga magsasaka.
01:46Dahil base sa pag-aaral ng Department of Agriculture,
01:49posibli nang bumaba ng 20 hanggang 50 percent ang produksyon ng bigas ng bansa.
01:54Dahil sa pagmahal ng pataba, maapektuhan daw nito ang itatanim sa Mayo at Hunyo
01:58at tatamaan ang inaasahang supply na 10 million metric tons sa Agosto at Setiembre.
02:03In the current year, we are only producing 78 percent of our rice production.
02:09And 10 million metric tons would be a decrease in how much percent?
02:12Well, the initial projection, what we say, the minimum or the best case scenario is 20 percent production.
02:22That's the best case scenario.
02:23It can even go up to 50 percent decline in productivity.
02:27Because you see, pag walang fertilizer, walang magagawa yung farmer.
02:31That's 2 million metric tons of palay.
02:35Okay, so if we don't do anything, and again, yun yung operative, because we will do something.
02:40That is the cost of not doing anything, the inaction.
02:44At least 20 percent up to 50 percent production.
02:48Production loss.
02:49Hindi rin daw solusyon ng importasyon.
02:51All the countries in the world are doing the same.
02:54They're experiencing the same situation, sir.
02:56So, ang sinasabi niyo po is, posible na wala rin tayo mapagbilhan.
03:00That's possible.
03:02We've seen that in the case of India and also in other countries.
03:05Whenever there's a tight situation, the first...
03:07They stop selling.
03:08Yeah, it's to stop selling.
03:10Sabi pa ng grupong sinag, hindi na rin nag-aani ang ilang magsasaka ng gulay.
03:14Amatis is 5 pesos per kilo.
03:16Wala nang namimitas kasi mas magastos pa kung mamimitas sila.
03:22Cabbage is 10 pesos.
03:24Yung onion, nasa 9 AC tayo last week, chair.
03:30Bumagsak pa rin siya sa 25 white, 35 yung red.
03:34So, halos production cost lang niya yung nababawi niya.
03:38Itinutulak ngayon ng ilang senador na gumawa ng supplemental budget
03:41para pandagdag ayuda sa mga apektadong sektor.
03:45Sabi kasi ng DA, kahit may pondo sila, kulang na kulang ito maski para lang sa pataba.
03:50The fertilizer program of government just provide for one or two sacks of fertilizer per hectare.
03:59So, this is hardly 20% of what is the requirement of a rice farmer, for instance.
04:06Yung 16 billion po natin, it would appear as a big sum.
04:10Pero, sir, the 16 billion is just 20% or even less right now.
04:18Baka nga maging 10% na lang yan kasi tumaas yung presyo.
04:25Apela ni Sen. Bam Aquino, gamitin ang 200 billion pesos na ayuda fund sa 2026 national budget para sa fuel
04:32subsidy.
04:32Suestro naman ni Sen. Loren Legarda, magbigay ng logistical support sa mga magsasaka.
04:38Pero sagot ng DA,
04:39Wala po kaming fuel subsidy for the truckers.
04:42Or even, ang naibibigay po namin, well, na-experience namin ito during the pandemic,
04:47naibigay po ng trucks, lado doon sa mga FCA's na nabigyan ng pondo para magtindas mga kadiwa noon panahon.
04:54Pero pati po panghingi ng krudo ng hingi eh.
04:58Kasi hirap din sila eh.
05:00Sabi ni Committee Chairman Sen. Kiko Panglinan,
05:03kung kulang ang pondo, pwede naman silang humingi sa Kongreso.
05:06Mav Gonzalez, Nakatutok, 24 Horas.
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