Philippines - Asia’s fastest producer of Rice

A recent World Market Data shows that “as the fastest rice producer in Asia” .Philippines has been registered its biggest improvement in the production of rice in Asia.

The records from World Market and the Trade of United States Department, Rice Research Institute of the Philippines shows that Philippines which posted 97 percent rice self sufficiency status last year with a 4.04 % average increase in the milled rice production from the year 2010 – 2013.

Philippines produced 10.99 M metric tons of milled rice, up from 9.77 M metric tons in 2011. With this improvement, Philippines surpassed some major rice exporters these includes India and China, which showed an improvement of only 1.55 and 3.77 % in milled rice production.

Rresearchers Htut Oo, Maung Shwe and Wong said that “increasing private sector efforts in integrating increasingly Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-wide modern farming and modern economic activities along agri-food supply chains and international trading networks could and should be harnessed and leveraged to complement ongoing government efforts toward food security in Asia.”

Rasco said that PhilRice recently signed memorandum of agreement (MOA) to collaborate on the conduct of promotion and researches of technologies.