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The Association of South East Asian Nation Integration 2015 will take place in a matter of days...and the Philippines is among those ASEAN countries that will be included in the ASEAN Economic Community. AEC 2015 is fundamentally about open trade within ASEAN, meaning there will be one big market for goods and services or a free flow of goods, services, capital and labor among the participating countries. This will be beneficial for the people since products and services will become competitive and a lot of cheap goods will be available in the market. But, what does it really mean for the Philippine Agriculture? In the seminar conducted by Dr. Tolentino, the Deputy Director General of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna entitled “Rice, Nutrition and Food Security, and AEC 2015; Some Relevant Factors” it came to my realization that the Philippine government along with the different government offices associated with the country’s agricultural sector especially the Department of Agriculture should take the necessary immediate action in improving the current situation of the Philippine Agriculture, especially now that ASEAN 2015 is soon at hand. There are lots of programs implemented in the different parts of the country that give assistance to farmers like mechanization programs and input subsidies but, they are still not enough for our agricultural commodities to be competitive. The Philippines is an agricultural country known for producing rice, corn and coconut among others. Majority of the people consumes rice, making it the staple food. An average Filipino consumes 120 kg of rice in a year making the demand of rice in the country to be relatively high. But, the problem is that, Filipino rice farmers cannot supply enough relative to the country’s total demand for rice. According to IRRI, at present, the Philippines is the top

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