The Rice Policy
May 27, 2003
WHILE the sugar crisis is not yet over, the rice issue is emerging. Farmers everywhere are clamoring as the price of rice in the husk keeps plummeting. Rice is not a mere problem of agriculture, nor is it just an economic question. Rice involv
Sutrisno Iwantono*
*Chairman, Agricultural Committee, International Cooperatives Alliance, Asia-Pacific, and former Deputy State Minister of Cooperatives & Small/Medium-Scale Enterprises