RA No.

11203:
TARRIFICATION LAW
 WHY DO FILIPINOS IMPORT RICE?
Filipinos main staple in the dinner table is rice

• The population
increases at
2.5% each year
 IMPORTATION

93% 7%
Rice Self -Sufficient Imported
 2018 Rice Crisis
In 2017, the agricultural growth of the
Philippines was 5.78% then by 2018
plummeted to 0.58%
 TARRIFICATION LAW
• Allowing unlimited import of rice without
restriction
• Quick import processing
• Will give 10 Billion aid to local farmers
• Cheap imported rice
ARGUMENTS
 EFFECTS ON FARMERS
The local farmers will be gravely affected
 1200 = 1 SACK

1200 x 66
= Php. 79 200
- Cooperatives fee
- Machinery fee
- Grains
Farmers and fishermen and children of low-
income families are still the poorest of the
country’s basic sectors, according to the latest
report of the Philippine Statistics Authority
 10 Billion won’t go Directly to Farmers

50% 30% 10% 10%

Machine and Seed Expanded Training
Equipment Development Rice Credit
 10 Billion aid won’t suffice

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel

Piñol
10 Billion aid won’t suffice
 POSITION STATEMENT
• Tarrification Law kills the only way of living of
the farmers therefore we are anti-tarrification
law.