HPP and Food Challenge 2023

The government must take immediate and extraordinary measures to save our food and strive to fulfill the farmers' wishes. Hopefully the slogan, "Let's make farmers prosperous" is not merely empty jargon.

During the current administration (2015-2022), national rice production decreased by 0.23 percent per year.

Rice production fell from 56.27 million tonnes of dry milled grain (GKG) in 2014 to 54.75 million tonnes of GKG in 2022. Rice production also fell in the 2019-2022 period from 59.20 million tonnes of GKG (2018) to 54.75 million tonnes of GKG (2022), or a total of 2.56 million tonnes. In 2019, rice production decreased sharply by 7.7 percent due to the El Niño phenomenon.