Please make this segment at least 30 minutes! This is the best segment in Philippine media today. Insightful and no biases just plain facts.

It is so refreshing to listen to someone who clearly knows what he is talking about with a broad view across industries.

Many thanks for inviting me again

He is right, do not assume other countries will feed the Philippines. All countries will prioritize their own people first. It is imperative the Philippines becomes rice self sufficient. By neglecting the issue means the Philippines leaves itself vulnerable to starvation.

Stevienomics is never enough!!! It should be a 1-hour show!

Rice problem is not really difficult to solve, but most PH politicians will prioritize there pocket first rather the solving rice crisis...

Wish I had a professor like Mr. Stephen Cuunjieng back when I was still studying.. For a student who has inclination or potential to study the interrelationship of business,finance and economics; learning could have been more interesting and encouraging..Like him who seems to me is an expert in his own field.

It's obviously the department of agriculture don't know what they're doing 😅😅😅

Last year.. nagpatanim Kami Ng palay SA Amin Hindi kalakihang Lupa, gumastos Kami Ng MGA 55k at kumita Kami Ng 57500 so MGA 2500k Lang... SA anim na buwan Ng proseso Ng pagtatanim tapos 2500 Lang kikitain mo, magtatanim Ka pa ba? Partida, wala bagyo pa Yan!

Honestly, this gentleman should write a book. The wisdom is just flowing across the board. His commentaries are an expensive treat, and we get it for free! Thank you Sir!

give sir stephen his own anc show please 🙏🙏🙏 been watching his interviews din sa one news ph; such an excellent resource person talaga 💯💯💯.

Ganito dapat ang kinukuha presidential adviser,/ cabinet member. Pwede makipagsabayan sa international.

Let's take care of our farmers , lucky kasi mayroon pang nagtityaga magsaka, mga kabataan ngayon Wala nang alam sa pagsasaka at ayaw nang magsaka dahil walang magandang kinabukasan sa pagsasaka , yan Ang nakikita nila

Wow! Sir you hit the nail in the head there! presenting facts and a sensible solution that's very rare now,specially with our politician we are paying them just to grand stand. Keep it coming Sir.thanks.

Stevie has usually given us very candid and insightful sessions, this one though has a particular edge to it maybe because the issues discussed hit close to home in terms of what's in the public consciousness and discourse nowadays - food security, inflation, and territorial disputes. So thanks for helping enrich the discourse, ANC and team!

Mr. Cuuenjieng, thanks for this eye-opening talk. Congress should pass a law requiring politicians to watch Stevienomics. In a country where rice security is tantamount to food security, it is sobering to hear about the Philippines' dismal rice production numbers that make rice import a matter of national survival. (Pardon the hype there.) Am afraid that the curse of geography has locked the country's destiny to become a forever rice importer. Thousands of islands with limited flat land suitable for rice cultivation. Millions of poor rice farmers with small landholdings that make scaling up difficult. Climate-change-induced disruptions of the rice planting calendar. Add typhoons to the mix. I wonde who are the politicos who stay awake at night thinking of solutions to the problem. And who are thinking of how they can profit from the coming rice shortage?

Years of neglect, today’s woe.

More of him please. Stevienomics Weekly Episode or Podcast 😍😅

More people should listen to this.

I hope people will realize that some senators are not sincere in what they're saying. Some of them are just grandstanding. And please senator tulfo wag ka na lang magbida2x sa WPS issue. Last time nag bida2x ka sa kuwait issue, ang dami napahamak na pinoy na nasayang ang ginasto at hindi natuloy na makapagtrabaho sa kuwait.

Make this a segment please! Its rare to see an interview where a competent person knows deeply in this issue.

Mr Cuunjieng, a banker who knows it all

"bellyaching! emotional" !!! mr. Cu unjieng , great description!!!! 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍

Philippines 2nd largest rice importers in the world. But our national leaders lack of support from the past to the present have not done enough to improve and secure food security measures to ensure our citizens will not be starved in case Rice exporting countries stopped or imposed too high prices unaffordable for Filipinos.

If we want to improve rice production then some form of well directed subsidy must be implemented. It may be that the carrying capacity for our land has been irrevocably breached by our bursting population. This war in Europe will make the situation even worse fertilizer and wheat prices affected. Lets hope our neighbors keep on producing surpluses of rice if not we will have to find substitutes for rice. In end high rices will force us to change our food preferences.

Why are you so intelligen Stevie. Learned a lot from all of your interviews..

I believe what stevie has said that effective occupation is the best answer to our problem in wps. and thats what I thought also a long time ago, but it seems our politicians and leaders put so much fear in their mind about war with china..

Very enlightening Mr. Cuunjieng. Especially about that concept of effective occupation in field of geopolitics.

We should have highly qualified technocrsts with the likes of Mr Cuunjieng as advisors who can provide high value inputs to the current Administration. .The Philippines is being left behind its neighbors. Vietnam is a relatively new democracy (compared to the Phils.) but has double our country's capacity in terms of power generation, rice production (net.exporter) attracting more FDI (foreign direct .investment). There has to be an "apolitical" medium to long term development plan to address the structural issues to become a self sufficient rice producer. And this plan should not be limited to one administration but be continued in the next several administrations.

New month new segment ulit from mr Stevie. Thank you for giving us your time every month

Hindi nakakasawang makinig sa guest niyo. Very informative and substantial ang mga sinasabi.

More more of this smart and unbiased man, Stephen Cuunjeing! That’s a very short time given to him. Should be longer or he can have his own show.

I believe that large corporations should just rent farm lands, consolidate and hire farmers as employees with stock options or bonuses for working. I do not believe rice sufficiency can be attained without entrepreneurial initiative.

Stevie nice to hear from you again! Keep up the good work! What's your take on farm cooperatives in the Philippines?

Our rice shortage and dependence is an embarrasment, we need to support our farmers to have a better more rewarding life so they become more productive and stop selling their lands to land developers. There should be a serious oversight With the importation of rice since there are people getting fat rich out of importation of rice to the ph.

I hope mr Stephen can talk about the health care industry in the Philippines...

Proximity and legal possession provided by arbitral court. UNCLOS belong to the Philippines.

Very well said STEVIENOMICS... Actually this country is so blessed in so many ways, starting with geography, various literate hard working professionals (human resources), natural resources etc...but nobody love this country at all...meaning no patriotic but only users and abusers. So, i guess we deserve what is going to happen to us😢

...at the center of this all...how's the Secretary of Agriculture doing? 🤔

how about the issue on shortage of stevienomics videos? its only once a month!?!?

As always, thank you so much Sir Stevie for your wonderful business insights. I specifically liked the portion where you mentioned the importance of action, not just grandstanding. More power to you Sir !

Nakakalungkot

Marami na rin mga bukid na hindi sinasaka at isa pa marami na rin ang mga sakahan na na-convert na ng mga sub-division. pabahay sa mga mahihirap etc. Dati ang bansa natin ay exporter ng mga magagandang bigas way back 6 to 7 dacades.

Why aren’t their enough rice fields in the country? If India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and others are able to sustain their own. Why can’t we realistically start ramping up our own productions? Why depend on others? Coz when crisis starts we’ll hung dry.

wag ka mag alala hangggat may subdivision si Villar safe ang pinas.

Grabe ang India bilyon ang population pero nakakapag-export pa ng rice samantala 110M ang Pilipino nag-iimport pa ng rice?

Sir stevie never fails to impress! Always on point. Thank you sir!

unregulated importation is the problem of the country. if this is the case then we must also try to make small scale farming in our backyard. imagine if each family would farm rice on their rooftops?

Matatawa na maluluha ka na lang. Halos wala tayong manufacturing sector or bilang lang tapos priority natin pansin ko is retail (pagtitinda) at real estate na parang afford ng lahat. Obviously, corruption (same pa rin siguro kahit mag cha-cha tapos same set of people lol), mahal na kuryente o di abot sa lugar na pwede mag imvest, mataas na tax. Pansin ok naman mga batas natin kaso sa papel lang yun, walang may trip mag apply ng rules pag involve na pera. Tayo tuloy ang pinoy ang talo. Mga mayaman lalo pang yumaman

"Depoliticize" is a keyword. Thanks.

I really like the way he thinks. He call spade, spade. Nice.

The best way to develop our agriculture first: the government should develop our river to avoid flood w/c discourage farmers because they can not harvest their rice.

Yes another Stevienomics! Thank you Sir Stephen always looking forward listening to your inputs. How I wish the movers in our government would only listen. Antagal na ng mga problema ng Pinas puro band-aid solution lang lagi and most of the time there is no continuation of a good project when there is a change in people in power.

Blangadash have water catchment to store rainwater for the farms during the dry season. So they plant rice all year round. Philippines can easily double to 24 million tons if there is 3 crop per year.

Thank you for this

Very well said

Thanks. Stevie the explorer. 😀

Great insight Sir Stevie!

EFFECTIVE OCCUPATION = ACT Thank you Sir Stephen!

thank you

Philippines never included the islands in the West Philippine Sea in its defense treaty with the USA.

Effective occupation is correct. Use the money Philippines got fron the lease for US army base and build a proper island with Filipinos living on that island.

Our neighbors did not have the longest running agrarian reform program in the history of the world. The inability to consolidate farmland to achieve economies of scale is still extant, yet even our socialist neighbors allow land to be put together.

Can you please make the show longer. Sobrang bitin lagi!!! May I request Sir Stevie, sana magkaron ka ng sarili mong segment sa channel mo about those issues. Napakaraming matututunan sayo. Sana mapansin.

How about sa pacific islander hindi ba sila nag ra rice?

This man should be an independent consultant for the president

Can something else be substituted for rice that could increase the food supply .

Mga kababayan medyo bawas-bawasan natin ang manganak ng marami. Kinakapos na tayo ng pagkain.

i watched this almost 10x with teary eye. As a manufacturing ERP consultant, it's sad to see that I don't have local clients but 2 from vietnam (agro-industrial). I've been working for US manufacturers but sadly no one here to share my knowledge.

Simply people dont want to do farming anymore. We are the source of nurses and engineers of the world. farming is not profitable, better go overseas work and send money back to family

Philippines Agricultures Admin should also hide Rice like what they did to onions To increase the price of rice. 😂😂😂 WE CAN READ YOU!

Kasi naman pano maiimprove ang mga pasilidad ng AFP sa mga bahagi ng teritoryong yan, napupunta sa PDAF ng mga mambabatas at sa bulsa ng mga buwaya ang kaban ng bayan. Katagal ng panahon na hindi pinansin ang pagpapabuti ng sandatahang lakas kaya ngayon puro ngawa lang muna tayo.

you can't compare PH to Thailand and Vietnam they do have great rivers and not broken land mass. Chao Praya and Mekong River respectively are the main source of their water which is essential.

How can the Philippines industrialize when we are not self sufficient in rice and even considered one of the biggest rice importers? What's the best we can do? Just import our people instead. As seamen, as nurses, as household help or as any kind of dollar earner who can feed their poor relatives left in the Philippines.

For wisdom to be given to just one man is just incredibly unfair. Sana all😢😢😢.

On record during marcos sr time we export rice...

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Dept of Importation headed by jr

So magtanim ay di biro?

Trying to find a short term solution on a fundamental long term problem.

Weird that the anchor is actually smiling while basically saying we are doomed. 😥

Use Maharlika to make a private company in Africa and invest to plant food to deliver in PH like what other countries are doing.

Shout out sa tambaloslos administration ngayon

What will happen to Philippines if no more Country selling rice?

Its gets cut off when itt getting more interesting

Why next month? Cant you not do it on a weekly basis?

we are 50 yrs overdue so wonder who were in charge of our govt administration during said period...haiiii

Rice-lands must reduced or exempt from to induce rice planting.

Ang gagaling ng mga pulitiko sa atin puro pamumulitika ang inaatupag kaya napabayaan ng Matagal ang ating rice production

Its the mindset. I’d ask the both of you. Would you farm? I rest my case…

Singapore almost import all its agriculture products.. It we can't self sufficient n foods, cause of thypoons, be like Singapore

To the question of are we about to starve from lack of rice, he did not answer. It is an immediate problem, but he is talking about long-term problems.

Time to shift to a non-rice diet lol seriously, agricultural self-sufficiency has always been a problem in PH due to a lack of leadership cohesion. A fact that can easily be exploited by shrewd businessmen. It should be obvious that we should be self-reliant on the basics, and yet we’re not. Thanks for bringing awareness, as usual. And I hope the gov’t decision makers take notes while there’s still time to execute solutions.

Bitin

Mga senador natin puro minutes of meeting, discussion ,gathering walang gawa ang bagal ng usad ng military aquisition tapos dapat mag may nag babantay na doon sa west philippine sea. Dapat mag tayu na tayu ng infrastacture doon.

hahahahaaaa well, we don't really have food security. and to ask our farmers to sell at below P20 is crap. that is exactly what BBM promised...blessings to all

Philippines, best importer in the world🎉🎉😂😂

madali lng nmn yan. Ung mayayaman ngmamayari ng lupain na nakatiwangwang lng ng 5 years pataas. Take over ng government for rice fields at ipagawa sa mga walang trabaho.

Sobrang bitin yung insight about China. Iba talaga pag si Sir Stevie ang guest.

cuunjust😂😂😂😂