The Gains and Losses of Producers and Consumers in the Implementation of Rice Tariffication Law: An Integrated Impact Analysis

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effects on consumer and producers in the advent of the implementation of the law. This study had used the triangulation type of mixed method research design. The quantitative research design was used to analyze the secondary data and survey result with the aid of descriptive and inferential statistics. Meanwhile, the qualitative research design was used to validate the existing statistical results generated from secondary data survey results by conducting in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. This study had evaluated the impact of RTL in macro and micro level both in household and producer sector. The Top-Down Microsimulation had used to assess the impact of the RTL on consumer level in terms of consumption expenditures and poverty and distribution of income. The result of the study revealed that the rice prices for consumers does not automatically lower down with the imposition of Rice Tarrification Law. Moreover, the household is anticipated to experience a conservative decrease in the cost of consumption of rice by 0.45% or a household savings amounting to Php10.30 million. Moreover, the Philippine had experienced a decline in the current prices of well milled rice by 4.59% and real prices of well milled rice by 8.12% amid the implementation of RTL.