Facts and Figures on Rice

Estimated amount of rice to be imported by the Philippines this year, in millions of metric tons, according to a March report: 2.2 Estimated amount of rice imported by the Philippines in 2007, in millions of metric tons: 1.87 Amount of rice imported by the Philippines in 1990, in millions of metric tons: .593 Number of sacks of rice Filipinos waste daily, according to a study made by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics and the Food and Nutrition Research Institute: 24,805 Estimated amount of wasted rice, in millions of pesos: 22 Number of spoonfuls of rice each Filipino wastes everyday: 1 Number of days the wasted rice can feed the Filipino population: 14 Number of sacks of rice Filipinos consume daily: 646,000 Number, in thousands of metric tons, that the Philippines consumes daily: 32 Estimated amount of rice, in millions of metric tons, that the Department of Agriculture expects to produce for this year: 17.32 Amount of rice produced in 2007 under the government's Ginintuang Masaganang Ani program, in million metric tons: 16.24 Total effective area, in millions of hectares, of rice plantations under the aforementioned program: 4.27 Amount of rice produced in 2006 under the government's Ginintuang Masaganang Ani program, in million metric tons: 15.33 Number of months it took the Department of Agriculture to increase rice productivity targets for 2007 under the government's Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program: 10 Number of years starting 2008 until the Philippines attains 95 percent rice self-sufficiency, according to the Department of Agriculture: 2 Number of days worth of rice inventories that the National Food Authority should keep in stock on the average: 15 Number of days worth of rice inventories that the National Food Authority has in stock, according to a March report: 13 Estimated amount of rice, in thousands of metric tons, pledged by Asean countries, including Japan, South Korea, and China for the East Asian Emergency Rice Reserve, which intends to stabilize grain prices: 200 Amount of rice that the Philippines may use from the aforementioned reserve, in thousands of tons, according to a March report: 25 to 40 Amount of palay harvests that the government expects this year, in millions of metric tons, as per a March report: 17.33 Amount of palay harvests last year, in millions of metric tons: 15.33 Amount of subsidized rice of the total volume sold in the Philippines: 16 Amount of money, in billions of pesos, released by the government to ensure food production, just for the month of March alone: 3.35 Number of times that the Philippines drew from the Asean's emergency rice reserves: 1 Estimated percentage of imported rice stocks held by the National Food Authority, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics: 89 Amount of rice imports needed if Filipinos eat brown rice, according to a study by Emil Q. Javier, former UP President and current head of the Asia Rice Foundation: 0