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Forum News On 20 May 2008 at the Manila Golf and Country Club, the MAP ABCDF members and guests were privileged to hear birthday celebrant, Atty. Eduardo F. Hernandez share his assessment on the Extension of the Failed CARP (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program) and Food Security. His presentation, minutes of the meeting, and this forum news write up are all accessible through Google search at the foundation web site www.map-abcdf.com.ph 1. 35 countries are rice importers but only 7 countries are rice exporters. Unfortunately, the Philippines is the biggest rice importer now. 2. The city force should pay the right price for rice produced by the rural poor. A good price is the best incentive for the producer to grow rice. 3. The Philippine sugar industry prospered in the past due to the sugar crop loans granted by the banks. The sugar quota was annotated on the back of the concerned land title. 4. The then Philippine sugar industry did not treat its workers as tenants but as employees. 5. The CARP became a land to the landless program resulting in incompetent and inexperienced poor people getting land while the real tillers of the soil did not receive any. 6. The Philippine agrarian reform is the largest and longest in the whole world, democratic or pseudo democratic. 7. The CARP is a classic case of Good Politics, Bad Economics. 8. The Philippines has the lowest agricultural productivity in the whole of South East Asia. 9. Koreans are able to achieve a higher rice productivity even if its country has one of the harshest winters. They plant rice sprouts and not rice seeds. 10. Landlessness will not result in a social revolution but food shortage and hinger may.

Source: www.map-abcdf.com.ph