RP won`t reach rice sufficiency target for next 7 years — study

Rice sufficiency target is unlikely to be achieved by the country, whether in 2013 or even through the course of the decade to 2020. In a recent study conducted by the The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Senior Research Fellow Roehlano Briones said that in spite of the efforts the Department of Agriculture (DA) that crafted the Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) and its increased budget for 2013 to P55 billion, rice sufficiency is still unstable.