Do we really have rice shortage?

I think the rice problem is not as serious as the government would overstate it. Even if there is food crisis all over the world, I believe that Philippines is not as hardly hit as the other developing and really starving countries. Rice crisis is just created by the administration to divert attention from the real problem of the nation. Our country's problem is not rice shortage but the appalling shortage of sincerity and honesty in the government. Have you noticed? When the administration raised the news about the rice problem, public interest has died down on the ZTE contract and its protected “Greedy People”? Rice problem valid or not, has proved the expertise of this administration in manipulating public opinion to suppress further exposés of government venalities.