{"id":50243,"date":"2015-05-22T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50243"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:30:17","slug":"ph-eyes-rice-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/22\/ph-eyes-rice-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"PH eyes rice imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45625\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/imported-rice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45625\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/imported-rice-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Imported rice warehouse (Photo courtesy of marketplace.org)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/imported-rice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/imported-rice-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/imported-rice-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/imported-rice.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imported rice warehouse (Photo courtesy of marketplace.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; While the government is still expecting to hit new records in rice harvest, the Philippines eyes to import 500,000 metric tons of the said\u00a0staple crop.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said they are expecting the first batch of imports to arrive before July.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the imports will help secure enough rice for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the department is still eyeing to hit a bumper harvest of 20.08 million metric tons this year.<\/p>\n<p>The department, however noted that delays in production and drought may reduce the harvest to only 19.02 million metric tons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can hit more than 19 million MT, that will be another record year for us,\u201d Alcala said.<\/p>\n<p>The country has a total rice production of 18.97 tons last year, a figure that is higher that the 18.4 million tons recorded in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Agriculture secretary said that in order to boost rice production to the level of sufficiency the country needs more irrigation projects.<\/p>\n<p>As a requirement, the country needs to produce at least 50 percent of its yearly needs for it to be considered self-sufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; While the government is still expecting to hit new records in rice harvest, the Philippines eyes to import &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}