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broadcast journalist—together with award-winning documentarists Kara David, Maki Pulido, and
Atom Araullo as they present and seek answers to one of the most pressing issues of today in
“Walang Unli-Rice: A GMA News and Public Affairs Special”.
Farmers continue their struggle with ancient farming techniques in the Rice Granary Province of
Nueva Ecija
As the supply of NFA rice runs out in their warehouses, the price of commercial rice has also
begun to soar. In Mindanao where poverty remains at alarming levels, rice is now considered a
luxury. The family of Albasin and Norain Tanjilani, residents of an island part of Zamboanga now
totally abstain from taking rice with their meals. They say it was in the month of June when they
last ate a cup of rice. Back then, the price of rice was just at P30-40 per kilo but has since surged
to P65-70 a kilo in their area. They now eat kamoteng kahoy instead of rice.
Maki Pulido with a lady farmer who is washing mud-covered rice grains as another typhoon hits
Northern Luzon.
Apart from the consuming public, “Walang Unli-Rice” also tackles the issues concerning the
farmers who toil in the rice fields. From the “Rice Granary” of the Philippines, the province of
Nueva Ecija remains the country’s top rice producer. But despite their productive harvest lies the
perennial problems that continue to beset the farmers. They do not have a farm land to call their
own, remain indebted to their landlords and continue to farm with poor irrigation facilities and
ancient farming techniques all of which contribute to low rice productivity. “Walang Unli-Rice”
also examines the rice situation in Thailand, now the world’s 2nd largest rice exporter, whose
farmers once gained knowledge by training at our own International Rice Research Institute.