tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216971465110756063.post4255693239860111113..comments2024-02-28T21:30:35.097-08:00Comments on P E R C E P T I O N S: the government has just controlled the price of riceRajarataralahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12458863668453807819noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216971465110756063.post-24238741240359402432008-04-18T11:00:00.000-07:002008-04-18T11:00:00.000-07:00hello Raja,I am sorry to hear this. As you wrote, ...hello Raja,<BR/>I am sorry to hear this. As you wrote, after going through, water shortages, floods, labor shortages etc, you have to deal with this silly politicians. Remember most of them have very short term views, all they care is to get elected and to stay elected. <BR/>Most probably lobbyists from those big millers may have done this to get farmers to sell their rice. But you have something valuable above your shoulders, so use it. Activism or being sacrificial, not unless you yourself planning to be a politician.<BR/>I am very surprised at Japanese governments effort to save small rice farmers. Subsidies are two or three times the market price of rice! where they could easily buy rice from US for ridiculously low prices, like 10% of the domestic market value! The rice crisis is all over Asia.Prices have doubled in a year! <BR/>On the same note, could you grow those Japonica varieties of rice in SL? Shorter growing time, less water usage and longer storage times in one package.<BR/>Hope you will walk through these troubled times.<BR/>VoipnicheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com