The Philippines has been relying on food producers from other countries for decades. It continues to import rice in huge quantities years after the El Niño episode of 1997-1998 that ravaged swaths of ricelands.
Philippine agricultural exports in the first quarter went up by 10.7 percent to $1.72 billion from $1.56 billion recorded in 2023.
The latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority attest to the fact that the country remains reliant on foreign farmers for its food supply. Even as millions of local farmers and workers depend on the farm sector for their livelihood, the country’s food imports accounted for nearly 72 percent of agricultural trade in the first quarter.
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