AreaPhilippines

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date01/10/2012

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentPromotion of local production and consumption patterns

DescriptionDeclared 2013 as the National Year of Rice and November of each year as the National Rice Awareness Month. The advocacy campaign is part of the country\'s rice self-sufficiency programme and will seek to promote the adoption of yield enhancing technologies by farmers, a reduction of rice wastage, as well as greater husked rice consumption.