Food is nothing to worry despite the disasters that reportedly upset the country’s food supply.

Both President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap agree that with more than two and a half months of food supply available, the country could rest its worries.

Many people have guessed that the flood-damaged farmlands in Luzon would create supply imbalance all over the country..

Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap however reported the current food supply situation and added that the supply inventory does not even include the Visayas and Mindanao harvests.

He also included that the country can’t just look at the National Food Authority (NFA) when it comes to inventories of food supplies while pointing out to commercial suppliers who stockpile enough.

By showing a price-monitoring chart, Sec. Yap also clarified that even while the NFA is presently tendering its supplies, the country’s market prices for rice in Luzon even lowered after the storms.

The Boholano by-affinity cabinet member also noted that his agency is looking at recovering 150,000 hectares of storm-damaged ricelands as soon.

The government is preparing one bag of seeds and five bags of fertilizer to any farmer who has rehabilitated his farm, Yap claimed.

On how the country is faring in its disaster relief and rehabilitation programs, the President, with the help of Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, reported the crucial role of food caravans sent to areas forecasted to be in the direction of the storms, making sure food is available there.

President Arroyo has also her hands on, leading the storm relief, recovery and rehabilitation efforts while making sure government agencies track prices to dishearten opportunistic businessmen from using the situation to manipulate prices of basic commodities.

According to Sec. Teodoro, about 10 million people were directly affected by the four storms, while about four million is in urgent need of daily food and non-food requirements.

PGMA wishes kinder broadcast media for rest of her term

“I hope you will not begrudge me for wishing that the broadcast media will be kinder to me during the rest of my term as president,” President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said in her keynote address at the 35th Top Level Management Conference of the Kapisanan nga mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas, recently.

The President said that although certain individual broadcast institutions and personalities have been very much against her, she acknowledged that as an organization, the KBP has been very supportive.

President Arroyo congratulated the KBP for its adherence to professional standards, thus playing a role in the country’s development.

“KBP as an organization is the voice of moderation, reason and professionalism. Years ago you developed a code of standards and business practices. That is a good start for a self-regulating industry,” President Arroyo said.

The President said media can also do so much to guarantee greater accountability and transparency, and you can also do so much to make politics less destructive.

The President added that although she does not expect the media to part of a government propaganda machine, she and certainly the people expect the media to deliver truthful stories based on facts, as that is the guiding principle of the self-regulation as an industry.

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