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The Seminar Staff also provided the group a warehouse inspection exercis
Transcon Warehouses in Manila for field demonstrrtions.
Three afternoons were spent at the
14. Is there a program for the fumigation
of insect-infested products?- If so,
does it appear to be successful? ­
15. Are adequate records kept for a program
of stock rotation such as first in-first
out?-
7. Rice Post Harvest Systems in the
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Philippine Context
The following text was distributed to the
conferees by the Philippine Government
National Grains Authority. Although originally
in pamphlet form and illustrated with
many pictures, the narrative portions reproduced
below provide an excellent summary
of the conference lectures and discussions
on rice and paddy storage in the Philippine
setting.
"Good Warehouse Keeping"
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Advances in rice production-brought
about by the adoption of mechanized farming,
planting of high-yielding and earlymaturing
grain varieties, better infrastructure
system and massive credit availabilityhave
made necessary the improvement of
the existing storage facilities and their full
utilization to absorb the annual increases in
production yields.
1. Storage
Storage of palay, rice or corn is essential in
attaining a fair equilibrium between supply
demand as a means of stabilizing the
prices of these indispensable commodities.
The need for storage springs from the seasonal
nature of grains production which
requires, on the part of the government,
the accumulation of buffer stocks-out of
surpluses for a given period-to be distributed
when commercial stocks are
declining.
The government sets up buffer stocks by
establishing floor and ceiling price policies
do not only afford the producers a
profitable return on their farm investments,
but also assure consumers a year-long supply
of rice at areasonable prirP~
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