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Rice is our staple food. We Filipinos are fond of eating rice. Every time I take my meal the rice is always there. Every time I’ll eat outside the house there is rice. Every time there is a special event there is the rice in my plate. But now that they say there is a rice shortage, could we carry the rising price of our major needs especially rice. As a kid I can sense what are the problems in my surroundings. Financial problems, Personal problems, Emotional problems and the like. But a rice shortage, its a serious problem. In the past few years we do not encounter a kind of problem like this. Because there are many rice farms in those years. There are plenty of rice that time, and its price is low. But now look, those farms that was being used to supply our rice. They are replaced by high-rise buildings, malls, factories, condominiums and many othert establishments. That made our rice productions lower. While surfing the net I found this story. There was a farmer with his wife and 3 children. The farmer only earn enough to supply their needs every day. During their past few years, they can buy rice that costs only cheap. But as the time passes by, the amount of their regular rice goes higher and higher. Until they were forced to buy NFA rice. One day as the farmer’s wife gone to the market, as she arrives she seen that there were no NFA rice anymore that was being sold. So she decided to buy a commercial rice. She was shocked when she look anywhere in the market she couldn’t find any store where she can buy commercial rice. She asked one of the seller why that they don’t have any more rice, and the seller said ” because when there were no more stock of NFA rice the people forced to buy commercial rice”. She thought that her neighbor could have rice and please her if she could borrow some. And then she came on the house of their neighbor. But they have also the same problem. Her neighbor doesn’t have rice for their meal the next day. They also gone to their other neighbors but their neighbor’s rice is only enough for them. And they both go home sad. The couples asked what to do. They planned that they will prepare many “ulam” so that they could replace their rice with the use of that. The morning came, they were starting to eat their breakfast. The oldest of their child said “Wow! Chicken, but mom where’s our rice?”. This story tells us a story of a typical family who eats rice every meal that they have. I already noticed its effects. Like one of the restaurant, that we were always there when we want to eat outside the house to have our dinner. There is a promo there “Free extra rice”. But now, since the rice increase its price the restaurant cannot handle that promo anymore. If I could only pass a law which states that there should be only selected areas that are allowed to be build by any establishment(s) and there will be areas that will remain the same as the people knew it. Like in provinces, farms should not be allowed to be replaced by any structure. And the government will declare areas that buildings or any establishments are allowed to be built. So that we can remain the balance of a newly industrialized country and an agrarian country.