RICE SITUATION: Senator Mar Roxas (right) discusses the rice situation with Agriculture Sec. Arthur Yap (left), and asked for information on inputs required in rice production, after a hearing of the Senate committee on agriculture on Wednesday. The Senator said that now that the government has admitted a rice problem, it could now focus on the appropriate solutions. He urged the government to provide loans for farmers to procure the necessary fertilizer and thereby increase domestic production of rice grains.