AreaPhilippines

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date01/04/2011

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentProduction support

DescriptionFood Staples Self-sufficiency Roadmap 2011-–2016 announced, with the aim of ensuring food self-sufficiency by raising paddy production to 22.5 million by 2016, keeping average rice consumption at 120 kg per year and ensuring a 3.5 percent output growth of foodstuffs other than rice.