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Impact of Rice Tariffication Law in Bohol

The document discusses the Rice Tariffication Law signed in 2019 which replaced quantitative import restrictions on rice with tariffs. It aims to protect local farmers while providing more affordable rice to consumers. However, the implementation of the law in March 2019 resulted in higher consumer prices but lower prices paid to farmers. This negatively impacted many farmers, particularly in Barangay Bantolinao, Antequera, who risked their children's futures to survive. The study aims to understand how farmers have been affected by the law. It suggests improving post-harvest mechanisms and mechanization for rice farming in Antequera, Bohol to help farmers increase production and incomes.

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Impact of Rice Tariffication Law in Bohol

The document discusses the Rice Tariffication Law signed in 2019 which replaced quantitative import restrictions on rice with tariffs. It aims to protect local farmers while providing more affordable rice to consumers. However, the implementation of the law in March 2019 resulted in higher consumer prices but lower prices paid to farmers. This negatively impacted many farmers, particularly in Barangay Bantolinao, Antequera, who risked their children's futures to survive. The study aims to understand how farmers have been affected by the law. It suggests improving post-harvest mechanisms and mechanization for rice farming in Antequera, Bohol to help farmers increase production and incomes.

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Rationale

The Rice Tariffication Law titled “An Act liberalizing the

importation, exportation, and trading of rice, lifting for the

purpose the quantitative import restriction on rice, and for

other purposes” was signed into law by President Rodrigo Roa

Duterte on February 14, 2019. This is also known as the Rice

Liberalization Act or Republic Act No. 11203, which amends the

Agricultural Tariffication Act of 1996 that imposed tariff to

agricultural imports except for rice. The Rice Liberation Act

(R.A No 11203) or also known as the Rice Tarrification Law served

as the Philippine Government Compliance to its obligation to the

world Trade Organization. The primary purpose of the law is to

lift the quantitative restrictions or rice imports and replace it

with a general tariff. The law aims to protect the local farmers

from the entry or more imported rice to harvest. The rice

Tarrification Law will effectively disregulate the rice industry

to the national economic and development authority (NEDA) Rice

Tarrification will directly benefit farmers and the poor through

lower prices and increase government assistance to the

agricultural sector.
The price of the rice became a problem to the people of these

days. In relation to that, the government with the cooperation of

the Department of Agriculture implemented the law to the farmers

of the country. It serves to provide an affordable rice to the

consumers and the buyers and also at the same time provide source

of the income to the farmers but because of the implementation of

the RTL in March 2019 it resulted in higher price for consumers

but lower palay rice for the rice farmers. This is not a balance

that economists envisioned from the Rice Tarrification law. Local

rice farmers are not mere recipients of conditional cash

transfers but they are the key staple producers. The effect of

this rule is that it permits less expensive foreign imports to

the underprivileged without considering how it would affect local

farmers, particularly in Barangay Bantolinao, Antequera. Most

farmers risk the future of their children to survive. In that

scenario, the researchers came up with this study to see that the

farmers are greatly affected by this law.

It can be interesting for the researcher of this study to

recognize the need of improvement in the post-harvest and

mechanization level of rice farming in Antequera, Bohol.

Furthermore, the Office of Agriculture in Antequera engages and

imposes programs that could help Farmers to have higher

production in their harvest.

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