From farmers to importers: how Filipino rice growing went wrong

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From farmers to importers: how Filipino rice growing went wrong - Eco-Business

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In a nation of farmers, the Philippines is now importing more rice than any other, heaping poverty and debt on struggling sector.

The government said the El Niño phenomenon had cost the farm sector 9.5 billion pesos (US per cent161.70 million)in damages as of May, as climate change slashed rice production.

Alex Quinones has been a rice farmer in the Philippines for almost five decades - last summer was the first time his field dried up, forcing many of his neighbours to swap farm life for street sweeping.“We were not able to harvest any rice.