Rice: May Reach 40/kg

RICE farmers and members of civil-society groups Wednesday warned that the worst in the country’s rice- supply woes is yet to come as they predict the prices of rice will soar to as high as P40 a kilogram (kg) during the lean months of July to September unless the government acts with dispatch to prevent what could be a serious rice crisis.

Jessica Reyes-Cantos, lead convenor of Rice Watch and Action Network (R1), said reports of the tightening global supply of rice have pushed local prices in the market of the country’s staple food abnormally high even as the harvest season is still headed for its peak in April.

This early, he said unscrupulous rice traders are buying palay from farmers at P12/kg to P16/kg, apparently with the intention of manipulating rice supply and price in the lean months.

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Department of Health issued a directive to stop the selling of kidneys in the Philippines because of poverty. A committee has been formed to over-see kidney donors and make sure that the "donation" of the kidney is transparent and ethical.

In one documentary in GMA7, it showed that there are plenty of kidney donors (sellers) in slum areas. The cycle of selling kidneys - Donor (seller) - Middle Man - Foreigners (Buyers). Those foreigners are willing to pay huge amounts.

"We want to remove this black market," according to Duque. "We want to protect our already poor countrymen from abuse."

"We don't want to be known as the kidney capital of the world," -Padilla

Kidney market value ranges from 60,000.00 pesos to 200,000 pesos.

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