crisis of rice and the evil of pursuing profit for profit's sake

This is the easy story that sells airtime that attracts advertising money that eventually earns profit that sustains a lifestyle that enslaves... that promotes the status quo:

"Globally there is a rice shortage.
Someone is hoarding our rice inventories
to increase price.

The people that hoards our rice inventories
are the people that are friends to the powers-that-be
for there are the people that can really get away with it.

And the reason these people can get away with this
is because the government are in cahoots with them
they make money out of it, too

And why do the government people need to make money out of it?
It is because, they are greedy people!"

That's a nice story. But that's not the whole truth.
And if it is not the whole truth, then it is lie.

There's a silver lining for this sudden interest in rice production
I hope the media really tells the whole story.
Because, they are not still telling the whole story.

And I hope the people that can effect change
can see the whole and true situation

Consider this related events

We increase rice production...
By developing locale-based rice seedling
By developing irrigation
By developing organic fertilizers or even the chemical ones
Be developing farm to market roads

But if we do not fix the next link,
The middle man LIKE the threshers and the millers
All is lost.

We get the rice we eat not from the farms
but from the middle man.
And the middle men are not "scientists"
The middle men are business people
whose objective is to make a profit
And they make a profit because they understand
... Negotiations and the law of demand and supply.

Why do you think the farmers are still poor?
Is because the lack of hard work?
Or is the lack of knowing the value chain?

The issue on the farm is one of technology
The issue on the farm is one of science
And science do not lie
It follows the law of nature

But the issue on the middle man is different
It is a battle between good and evil.
A battle that has been waged since the Garden of Eden.

Ask these questions?
What process does the NFA go thru to know how much rice to import?
What are the variables involved in it?
What is the formula they use?

And who gave them the raw data they use in computing for the unknown in the formula?
And how did they get this data?
Are the sources of these data reliable?

The light comes from knowing the central issue of - who really benefits from the status quo?

The situation will only change if the party that is being hurt by the status quo will reach millions, like the whole Philippines = )

The status quo will learn to adapt but the status quo will not be sustainable because our realities are different to the reality that birthed the current system.

We need a new system and a new heart in bringing rice from the farm to our dining tables. This trying moment could be the Filipino's finest moment, yet.

Lord, thy will be done!