What If ₱20 Rice Was Actually Real? | What If Filipinas

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Every election they promise, rice will be 20 per kilo, but in 2022 one candidate actually meant it.

[00:00:08]He won, the people believed him.

[00:00:10]Executive order number one, rice drops to 20 overnight. The promise is real.

[00:00:16]For a family of five, thousands saved every month. More money for school, for medicine, for dreams you've put on hold.

[00:00:24]Finally, a president who keeps his word.

[00:00:27]But here's the other side. Farmers can't survive on 20. The rice industry collapses, thousands lose their jobs.

[00:00:35]The miracle has a cost, cheap rice, but at what price?

[00:00:39]How did he do it? Massive subsidies draining the budget, imports flooding the market, price controls bankrupting local farmers.

[00:00:48]A kept promise is rare, but what if keeping this promise destroyed more than it saved? Comment below, cheap rice or happy farmers?